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🏢 Largest Employer Shares

Employers as a share of total employment; ILO modeled estimate.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
20.8% – 5.0%4.9% – 3.7%3.7% – 3.0%3.0% – 1.6%1.6% – 0.2%No data
1
🇩🇯Djibouti
20.8%
2
🇳🇬Nigeria
19.7%
3
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
16.2%
4
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
13.1%
5
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
12.1%
6
🇭🇳Honduras
10.2%
7
🇦🇴Angola
9.6%
8
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
9.0%
9
🇹🇴Tonga
8.1%
10
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
7.5%
11
🇬🇭Ghana
7.5%
12
🇬🇷Greece
7.4%
13
🇨🇭Switzerland
7.3%
14
🇾🇪Yemen
7.1%
15
🇹🇳Tunisia
7.0%
16
🇦🇺Australia
7.0%
17
🇮🇹Italy
6.8%
18
🇳🇦Namibia
6.6%
19
🇭🇷Croatia
6.4%
20
🇸🇴Somalia
6.2%
21
🇺🇬Uganda
6.1%
22
🇨🇫Central African Republic
6.0%
23
🇱🇸Lesotho
5.9%
24
🇳🇿New Zealand
5.8%
25
🇬🇾Guyana
5.8%
26
🇳🇪Niger
5.7%
27
🇿🇦South Africa
5.6%
28
🇨🇺Cuba
5.6%
29
🇲🇽Mexico
5.5%
30
🇳🇮Nicaragua
5.4%
31
🇧🇿Belize
5.3%
32
🇰🇵North Korea
5.3%
33
🇵🇾Paraguay
5.2%
34
🇬🇲Gambia
5.1%
35
🇱🇻Latvia
5.0%
36
🇰🇷South Korea
5.0%
37
🇪🇪Estonia
5.0%
38
🇮🇸Iceland
4.9%
39
🇧🇬Bulgaria
4.9%
40
🇸🇻El Salvador
4.8%
41
🇫🇷France
4.8%
42
🇵🇹Portugal
4.8%
43
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
4.8%
44
🇩🇿Algeria
4.6%
45
🇹🇷Türkiye
4.6%
46
🇲🇦Morocco
4.5%
47
🇮🇶Iraq
4.5%
48
🇪🇷Eritrea
4.5%
49
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
4.5%
50
🇪🇸Spain
4.5%

Highlights

As of 2025, Djibouti ranks first with 20.8%, followed by Nigeria (19.7%) and Timor-Leste (16.2%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 20.8% (Djibouti) to 0.2% (Moldova), with a median of 3.4%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Africa, 3 from Asia, 2 from Oceania and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employers, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employers, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026