Dataset · ILO
Working Poverty Rate
26 years, 2000–2025 · 113 countries
The working poverty rate is the share of people who have a job and are still living in extreme poverty. It answers the question an unemployment rate cannot — whether work is enough.
This site holds every year from 2000 to 2025, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Working Poverty Rate · the file
- Newest
- Working Poverty Rate, 2025
- Held
- 26 years · 3,030 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0126 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working Poverty Rate, 2025Newest | 113 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2024 | 113 | −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2023 | 114 | −2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2022 | 116 | −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2021 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2020 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2019 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2018 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2017 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2016 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2015 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2014 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 26 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working Poverty Rate, 2013 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2012 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2011 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2010 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2009 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2008 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2007 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2006 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2005 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2004 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2003 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2002 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2001 | 117 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Working Poverty Rate, 2000 | 117 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: working-poverty-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, 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 | — | 113 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 113 | 0 | |
Employed people living below $2.15 a day (%)working_povertyHeadline | The headline figure: Employed people living in extreme poverty (%). | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.007 | 93 | 0 | |
Women (%)femaleWomen | The same measure, for women. | Number · whole numbers | — | 0 | 113 | |
Men (%)maleMen | The same measure, for men. | Number · whole numbers | — | 0 | 113 | |
Aged 15-24 (%)youthMeasure | Share of employed young people aged 15–24 who live in households below the international extreme-poverty line, in per cent. | Number · whole numbers | — | 0 | 113 | |
ILO observation statusobservation_statusFlag | ILO’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure. | Text | — | 2 | 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.
03117 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.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 46 | 46 | 46 |
| Americas | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Asia | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 32 | 31 | 31 |
| Europe | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Oceania | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| All | 117 | 117 | 117 | 117 | 117 | 117 | 117 | 117 | 116 | 114 | 113 | 113 |
The newest 12 of 26 years.
Not in this dataset · 108 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.
04Provenance
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
Working Poverty Rate 2025
Read from the publisher’s own service.3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
26 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as working-poverty-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.
SDG indicator 1.1.1, read from ILOSTAT directly (SDG_0111_SEX_AGE_RT).
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 September 10, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- 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), Working Poverty Rate, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
International Labour Organization (ILO). Working Poverty Rate, 2000–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/working-poverty
The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. ILOSTAT. Geneva: ILO.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Working Poverty Rate: questions and answers
What is the Working Poverty Rate?
The working poverty rate is the share of people who have a job and are still living in extreme poverty. It answers the question an unemployment rate cannot — whether work is enough.
Which years of the Working Poverty Rate can I download?
All 26, from 2000 to 2025, 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.