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Report year 2025Data year 2025
Employed people living in extreme poverty (%)Higher is worse — rank 1 is worst affectedPublished by International Labour Organization (ILO)
26 reference years (2000–2025), covering 113 to 117 countries, SDG indicator 1.1.1 read from ILOSTAT directly (SDG_0111_SEX_AGE_RT), with the female, male and youth figures stored beside the headline. The share of EMPLOYED people aged 15 and over living below the international extreme-poverty line. ⚠ It answers what an unemployment rate cannot: whether having work is enough to escape poverty. A country can have almost nobody unemployed and a large figure here. ⚠ POVERTY IS MEASURED AT THE HOUSEHOLD LEVEL AND WORK AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL, so this counts workers who LIVE in a poor household, not workers paid a poverty wage — a well-paid sole earner supporting many dependants can appear. ⚠ NO POSITION IS DERIVED: twenty countries share exactly 0.1%, which is 17.7% of the field, so ordering them would invent a distinction the data does not contain. Same call as youth-literacy.
Working Poverty Rate 2025 — International Labour Organization (ILO)
Cite as: International Labour Organization. ILOSTAT. Geneva: ILO.
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The share of EMPLOYED people aged 15 and over living in extreme poverty — SDG indicator 1.1.1, published by the ILO and read from ILOSTAT directly (SDG_0111_SEX_AGE_RT). ⚠ It answers what an unemployment rate cannot: whether having work is enough to escape poverty. A country can have almost nobody unemployed and a large figure here. ⚠ Poverty is measured at the household level and work at the individual level, so this counts workers who LIVE in a poor household, not workers paid a poverty wage. The ILO does not rank countries on it, so no rank is stored and none is derived.
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| ISO Code | Country | Employed people living below $2.15 a day (%) | Women (%) | Men (%) | Aged 15-24 (%) | ILO observation status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BTN | Bhutan | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| RUS | Russia | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| ARG | Argentina | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| SRB | Serbia | 0 | — | — | — | Imputation |
| MDA | Moldova | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| ARM | Armenia | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| BIH | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| ALB | Albania | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| DZA | Algeria | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| AZE | Azerbaijan | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| BLR | Belarus | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| BLZ | Belize | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| CHL | Chile | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| CHN | China | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| CRI | Costa Rica | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| IRQ | Iraq | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| KAZ | Kazakhstan | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| MYS | Malaysia | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| MDV | Maldives | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| MUS | Mauritius | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| MNG | Mongolia | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| PRY | Paraguay | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| THA | Thailand | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| TTO | Trinidad and Tobago | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| TUN | Tunisia | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| TUR | Türkiye | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| URY | Uruguay | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| JOR | Jordan | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| MNE | Montenegro | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| BRB | Barbados | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| SUR | Suriname | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| EGY | Egypt | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| DOM | Dominican Republic | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| TKM | Turkmenistan | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| PHL | Philippines | 0 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| BRA | Brazil | 1 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| MKD | North Macedonia | 1 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| JAM | Jamaica | 1 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| IRN | Iran | 1 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| GUY | Guyana | 1 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| VNM | Vietnam | 1 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| GEO | Georgia | 1 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| PAN | Panama | 1 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| MEX | Mexico | 2 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| NPL | Nepal | 2 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| FJI | Fiji | 2 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| KGZ | Kyrgyzstan | 2 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| UZB | Uzbekistan | 2 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| SLV | El Salvador | 3 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| BOL | Bolivia | 3 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| MAR | Morocco | 3 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| GAB | Gabon | 3 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| LKA | Sri Lanka | 3 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| IND | India | 4 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| NIC | Nicaragua | 4 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| COL | Colombia | 4 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| ECU | Ecuador | 5 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| BGD | Bangladesh | 5 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| TJK | Tajikistan | 5 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| CPV | Cabo Verde | 6 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| GTM | Guatemala | 6 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| IDN | Indonesia | 6 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| MRT | Mauritania | 6 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| PER | Peru | 6 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| GIN | Guinea | 9 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| MMR | Myanmar | 11 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| NAM | Namibia | 12 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| LAO | Laos | 12 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| HND | Honduras | 12 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| GMB | Gambia | 14 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| BWA | Botswana | 14 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| ZAF | South Africa | 14 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| PAK | Pakistan | 15 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| SEN | Senegal | 17 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| CIV | Côte d’Ivoire | 18 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| SYR | Syria | 18 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| BEN | Benin | 18 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| TGO | Togo | 20 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| CMR | Cameroon | 22 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| COM | Comoros | 25 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| GHA | Ghana | 28 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| NGA | Nigeria | 28 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| ETH | Ethiopia | 28 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| VEN | Venezuela | 30 | — | — | — | Imputation |
| GNB | Guinea-Bissau | 32 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| LBR | Liberia | 33 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| SWZ | Eswatini | 33 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| KEN | Kenya | 33 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| LSO | Lesotho | 34 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| MLI | Mali | 34 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| SLE | Sierra Leone | 35 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| PNG | Papua New Guinea | 37 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| TCD | Chad | 38 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| BFA | Burkina Faso | 39 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| AGO | Angola | 40 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| ZWE | Zimbabwe | 42 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| RWA | Rwanda | 42 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| TLS | Timor-Leste | 43 | — | — | — | Imputation |
| HTI | Haiti | 43 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| SLB | Solomon Islands | 43 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| TZA | Tanzania | 45 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| COG | Republic of the Congo | 49 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| NER | Niger | 50 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| UGA | Uganda | 53 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| ZMB | Zambia | 66 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| YEM | Yemen | 67 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| CAF | Central African Republic | 70 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| BDI | Burundi | 72 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| MWI | Malawi | 73 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| SOM | Somalia | 78 | — | — | — | Imputation |
| MOZ | Mozambique | 80 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| COD | DR Congo | 80 | — | — | — | Adjusted |
| MDG | Madagascar | 86 | — | — | — | Adjusted |