Informal Employment Rate

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: informal-employment-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Informal Employment Rate: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	97	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	97	0
Reference yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	10	0
Informal employment (% of total employment)informal_employmentHeadline	The headline figure: Informal employment (% of total employment).	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.86Hungary94.44Madagascarmiddle 36.76	97	0
Women (%)femaleWomen	The same measure, for women.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.824Hungary96.672Sierra Leonemiddle 36.242	97	0
Men (%)maleMen	The same measure, for men.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.88Hungary94.12Madagascarmiddle 39.23	97	0
Aged 15-24 (%)youthMeasure	Share of employed young people aged 15–24 whose work is informal, in % of their total employment.	Number · up to 3 decimals	2.11Hungary99.14Sierra Leonemiddle 36.77	96	1
ILO observation statusobservation_statusFlag	ILO’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure.	Text	—	1	87

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

One edition, covering 97 countries.

Not in this dataset · 128 places this site covers

ILO gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AlbaniaAlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAnguillaArgentinaArubaAustraliaAzerbaijanBahrainBelarusBelizeBeninBermudaBhutanBoliviaBritish Virgin IslandsBurkina FasoBurundiCabo VerdeCameroonCanadaCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChadChannel IslandsChinaColombiaCubaCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaDominican RepublicDR CongoEritreaEthiopiaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGabonGhanaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuineaGuinea-BissauHaitiHondurasHong KongIndiaIndonesiaIranIraqIsle of ManIsraelJamaicaJapanKazakhstanKosovoKuwaitKyrgyzstanLibyaLiechtensteinMacauMalaysiaMaliMaltaMauritiusMexicoMicronesiaMonacoMontenegroMontserratMoroccoMozambiqueNamibiaNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNicaraguaNigerNiueNorth KoreaNorth MacedoniaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsOmanPalestinePapua New GuineaParaguayPeruPhilippinesPolandPuerto RicoQatarRepublic of the CongoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSaudi ArabiaSenegalSingaporeSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomalilandSouth AfricaSouth SudanSri LankaSudanSurinameSyriaTaiwanTajikistanThailandTogoTrinidad and TobagoTürkiyeTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsUkraineUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsUzbekistanVatican CityVenezuelaYemen

1. 1 · Publisher

   International Labour Organization (ILO)

   ilostat.ilo.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Informal Employment Rate 2025

   Read from the publisher’s own service.

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: informal-employment-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/informal-employment

Read from ILOSTAT directly on the 19th ICLS standard (EMP_5NIF_SEX_AGE_RT). The ILO's modelled informality series was rejected: it contains only aggregates and no country at all.