Vulnerable employment
% of total employment (ILO modelled)
- Published value. Native scale: 0 to 100 percent.
- Transform: value (no transform).
- Goalposts (fixed for all years; 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles of all observed country-years): worst = 86.8 scores 0, best = 3.18 scores 100.
- Direction: lower is better, so the position is flipped (1 − position).
- Clip and scale: anything below the worst goalpost scores 0 and anything above the best scores 100; multiply by 100.
Where the numbers come from
- ILO modelled estimates (ILOEST), ILOSTAT produces the series — Status-in-employment data from labour force surveys, harmonised and gap-filled by the ILO's estimation model.
- World Bank staff estimates produces the series — Sums own-account and contributing family workers as a share of total employment, with staff estimates where the ILO series is incomplete.
Source statement as published by the data provider (verbatim)
ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: estimates based on external database; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
Vulnerable employment is contributing family workers and own-account workers as a percentage of total employment.
Every country row below has a “verify” link to this series filtered to that country, so each value can be checked against the source.
History
Countries ranked on this indicator
186 countries have a usable value for 2024 (4 carried forward from an earlier year); 31 have none within 2 years.
No official value for 2024: 31 countries
Aruba, Andorra, American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, Curacao, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Faroe Islands, Micronesia, Fed. Sts., Gibraltar, Grenada, Greenland, Isle of Man, Kiribati, St. Kitts and Nevis, Liechtenstein, St. Martin (French part), Monaco, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Naoero, Palau, San Marino, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Seychelles, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Ukraine, British Virgin Islands, Kosovo