Vulnerable employment, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate)

For 2025, Vulnerable employment, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) is led by Chad at 90.22%. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

Vulnerable employment is contributing family workers and own-account workers as a percentage of total employment.

Countries ranked 182
Snapshot year 2025
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0.022.645.167.790.2ChadChad: 90.22%90.2Sierra LeoneSierra Leone: 86.04%86.0MadagascarMadagascar: 84.42%84.4EthiopiaEthiopia: 84.15%84.1NigerNiger: 83.73%83.7MozambiqueMozambique: 83.68%83.7BurundiBurundi: 83.66%83.7TanzaniaTanzania: 83.65%83.7AfghanistanAfghanistan: 81.77%81.8Congo, Dem. Rep.Congo, Dem. Rep.: 81.51%81.5Burkina FasoBurkina Faso: 80.56%80.6Central African RepublicCentral African Republic: 79.42%79.4
Rank Country Value
151 Australia 9.12%
152 Latvia 8.62%
153 France 8.50%
154 Iceland 8.40%
155 Cyprus 8.38%
156 Jordan 7.86%
157 Austria 7.85%
158 Hungary 7.83%
159 Israel 7.70%
160 Japan 7.49%
161 Estonia 7.09%
162 Luxembourg 6.95%
163 Bulgaria 6.92%
164 Sweden 6.87%
165 Croatia 6.35%
166 Belarus 6.33%
167 Hong Kong SAR, China 5.76%
168 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 5.47%
169 Denmark 5.40%
170 Russian Federation 4.93%
171 Brunei Darussalam 4.48%
172 Germany 4.34%
173 Channel Islands 4.17%
174 Norway 4.17%
175 Oman 3.81%
176 United States 3.81%
177 Macao SAR, China 3.33%
178 Kuwait 2.40%
179 Saudi Arabia 1.66%
180 United Arab Emirates 1.50%
181 Bahrain 0.75%
182 Qatar 0.46%
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • Chad sits at the top of the Vulnerable employment, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) distribution in 2025 at 90.22%, with a lead of 4.19% over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Kyrgyz Republic at 28.97%, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Qatar (0.46%), and the page currently covers 182 countries.

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