Dataset · ILO
Share of Temporary Employees
18 years, 2007–2024 · 89 countries · 3 measures
This is the share of employees on temporary contracts — fixed-term, casual, seasonal or otherwise time-limited — out of all employees. It describes how much paid employment comes with an end date built in.
This site holds every year from 2007 to 2024, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Share of Temporary Employees · the file
- Newest
- Share of Temporary Employees, 2024
- Held
- 18 years · 1,411 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0118 years
Every year
Every year comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2024Newest | 89 | +9 −13 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2023 | 93 | +14 −10 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2022 | 89 | +17 −11 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2021 | 83 | +13 −7 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2020 | 77 | +4 −20 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2019 | 93 | +16 −8 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2018 | 85 | +11 −13 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2017 | 87 | +19 −6 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2016 | 74 | +9 −7 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2015 | 72 | +10 −16 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2014 | 78 | +14 −10 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2013 | 74 | +9 −13 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 18 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2012 | 78 | +12 −11 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2011 | 77 | +11 −5 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2010 | 71 | +9 −7 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2009 | 69 | +10 −1 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2008 | 60 | +3 −5 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Share of Temporary Employees, 2007 | 62 | — | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: temporary-employees-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
027 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | 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 | — | 89 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 89 | 0 | |
Employees on temporary contracts (% of employees)temporary_employeesHeadline | The headline figure: Employees on temporary contracts (% of employees). | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.34 United Arab Emirates72.78 Tanzaniamiddle 13.45 | 89 | 0 | |
Women (% of female employees)femaleWomen | The same measure, for women. | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.396United Arab Emirates70.659Tanzaniamiddle 12.548 | 89 | 0 | |
Men (% of male employees)maleMen | The same measure, for men. | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.323United Arab Emirates76.183 Vietnammiddle 13.470 | 89 | 0 | |
What the source covers (ILO notes)coverage_notesLabel | What the survey leaves out, where the ILO records it — for example main cities only. | Text | — | 2 | 87 | |
ILO observation statusobservation_statusFlag | ILO’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure. | Text | — | 1 | 83 |
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. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03148 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 10 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 16 | 18 |
| Americas | 13 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 15 |
| Asia | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 14 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 16 |
| Europe | 38 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 38 | 38 |
| Oceania | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| All | 74 | 78 | 72 | 74 | 87 | 85 | 93 | 77 | 83 | 89 | 93 | 89 |
The newest 12 of 18 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2024
+ Fiji
+ Gabon
+ Guyana
+ Lesotho
+ Mauritius
+ Malawi
+ Nauru
+ Palestine+ Tanzania
− Armenia
− Antigua and Barbuda
− Cook Islands
− Gambia
− Equatorial Guinea
− Grenada
− Jamaica
− Japan
− Kyrgyzstan
− Kiribati
− New Caledonia
− Eswatini
− Tonga - 2023+ United Arab Emirates+ Armenia+ Antigua and Barbuda
+ Burkina Faso
+ Bahamas+ Cook Islands+ Gambia+ Equatorial Guinea+ Grenada
+ Jordan+ Kiribati+ Eswatini
+ Seychelles+ Tonga
− Belarus
− Laos
− Madagascar
− Mozambique
− Peru− Palestine
− Sudan
− Somalia
− Suriname
− Samoa - 2022
+ Bangladesh
+ Brunei
+ Ghana+ Laos+ Madagascar
+ Mali+ Mozambique+ New Caledonia
+ Nigeria
+ Panama+ Sudan
+ Senegal+ Somalia+ Suriname
+ Uruguay+ Samoa
+ Zimbabwe
− Australia
− Comoros
− Ethiopia− Grenada− Guyana
− Iraq
− Pakistan− Eswatini
− Timor-Leste
− Tunisia
− Uganda - 2021
+ Bolivia
+ Colombia+ Comoros+ Ethiopia
+ Guatemala+ Iraq+ Pakistan
+ Paraguay
+ Singapore+ Eswatini+ Timor-Leste+ Tunisia+ Uganda
− Burundi
− DR Congo− Mali
− Myanmar− New Caledonia− Seychelles− Tanzania - 2020+ Burundi+ DR Congo+ Mali+ Tanzania− United Arab Emirates− Bahamas− Bolivia
− Côte d’Ivoire− Colombia− Guatemala
− Indonesia− Jordan
− Kenya
− Cambodia− Lesotho
− Maldives
− Mauritania− Pakistan− Paraguay− Senegal− Somalia− Tunisia− Uganda− Zimbabwe - 2019
+ Angola+ Bahamas
+ Botswana+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Kenya+ Cambodia+ Lesotho+ Maldives
+ Mongolia+ Mauritania+ Senegal+ Somalia+ Seychelles+ Tunisia+ Uganda+ Zimbabwe− Armenia− Antigua and Barbuda− Burkina Faso− Gambia
− Guinea-Bissau− Mali
− Namibia− Tonga - 2018+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Burkina Faso+ Gambia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Guyana
+ India
+ Israel+ Namibia+ Pakistan+ Tonga− Bangladesh− Côte d’Ivoire
− Djibouti− Ghana− Laos
− Liberia− Mauritania
− Niger
− Nepal− Senegal
− Togo− Uganda− Samoa - 2017+ United Arab Emirates
+ Argentina+ Bangladesh+ Djibouti
+ Georgia+ Ghana+ Jordan+ Laos+ Liberia+ Myanmar+ Mauritania+ New Caledonia+ Niger+ Nepal
+ Rwanda+ Togo+ Uganda+ Samoa
+ Zambia− Fiji− Maldives− Mauritius− Namibia− Suriname− Eswatini
Not in this dataset · 77 places this site covers
ILO 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.
Afghanistan
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Aruba
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Barbados
Belize
Bermuda
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
ChadChannel Islands
China
Cuba
Curaçao
Dominica
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Guinea
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iran
Isle of Man
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Liechtenstein
Macau
Malaysia
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
New Zealand
Niue
North KoreaNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Oman
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Sint Maarten
Solomon IslandsSomaliland
South Sudan
Syria
Taiwan
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Ukraine
United States
United States Virgin Islands
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
International Labour Organization (ILO)
2 · Their file
Share of Temporary Employees 2024
Read from the publisher’s own service.3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
18 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as temporary-employees-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 3 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
Read from ILOSTAT directly, from national labour force surveys; a few rows are figures the ILO takes from the OECD and from Eurostat.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked October 3, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
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- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: International Labour Organization (ILO), Share of Temporary Employees, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
International Labour Organization (ILO). Share of Temporary Employees, 2007–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/temporary-employees
The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. ILOSTAT. Geneva: ILO.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Share of Temporary Employees by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Employment-to-Population RatioILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
- Unemployment RateILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
- Vulnerable EmploymentILO · 35 held · 1991–2025
07Questions
Share of Temporary Employees: questions and answers
What is the Share of Temporary Employees?
This is the share of employees on temporary contracts — fixed-term, casual, seasonal or otherwise time-limited — out of all employees. It describes how much paid employment comes with an end date built in.
Which years of the Share of Temporary Employees can I download?
All 18, from 2007 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does ILO rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to ILO. The licence text is linked on this page.