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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.

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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.

2000bar height: countries covered, up to 1172025
Every year of Working Poverty Rate held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Working Poverty Rate, 2025Newest113±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2024113−1September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2023114−2September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2022116−1September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2021117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2020117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2019117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2018117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2017117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2016117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2015117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2014117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Show all 26 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Working Poverty Rate, 2013117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2012117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2011117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2010117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2009117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2008117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2007117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2006117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2005117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2004117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2003117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2002117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2001117±0September 29, 2026CSV
Working Poverty Rate, 2000117—September 29, 2026CSV

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.

Every column in the newest file of Working Poverty Rate: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1130
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1130
Employed people living below $2.15 a day (%)working_povertyHeadlineThe headline figure: Employed people living in extreme poverty (%).Number · up to 3 decimals0.007Bhutan86.016Madagascarmiddle 4.885930
Women (%)femaleWomenThe same measure, for women.Number · whole numbers—0113
Men (%)maleMenThe same measure, for men.Number · whole numbers—0113
Aged 15-24 (%)youthMeasureShare of employed young people aged 15–24 who live in households below the international extreme-poverty line, in per cent.Number · whole numbers—0113
ILO observation statusobservation_statusFlagILO’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure.Text—20

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.

All regions
Countries in each year of Working Poverty Rate, by continent.
201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Africa474747474747474747464646
Americas252525252525252525252525
Asia333333333333333333323131
Europe999999998888
Oceania333333333333
All117117117117117117117117116114113113

The newest 12 of 26 years.

Who joined and who left

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    International Labour Organization (ILO)

  2. 2 · Their file

    Working Poverty 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

    26 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as working-poverty-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 10, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • 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.

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