Informal Output (DGE Model Estimate)

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

Every column in the newest file of Informal Output (DGE Model Estimate): what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2020	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	156	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	156	0
Informal output, DGE model estimate (% of official GDP)informal_outputHeadline	The headline figure: Informal output, model estimate (% of official GDP).	Number · up to 16 decimals	7.910Switzerland60.429Zimbabwemiddle 27.500	156	0

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.

The newest 12 of 31 years.

Not in this dataset · 69 places this site covers

World Bank Group (Prospects Group) gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAmerican SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaEritreaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuyanaHaitiHong KongIraqIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLibyaLiechtensteinMacauMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontenegroMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePapua New GuineaPuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSerbiaSeychellesSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanTaiwanTimor-LesteTongaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsUzbekistanVanuatuVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group (Prospects Group)

   worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Informal Economy Database: informal output, DGE estimate, 2020

   informal-economy-database.xlsx

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

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

4. 4 · Stored as

   31 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as informal-output-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/informal-output

From the World Bank Prospects Group's own Informal Economy Database workbook (Elgin, Kose, Ohnsorge and Yu, 2021), which carries the model's values in full; the Bank's Data360 copy of the same figures is checked against it.

• Charted

  Informal Output (DGE Model Estimate) by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

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