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⚠️ Highest Vulnerable Employment

Own-account and contributing family workers as a share of employment; ILO modeled estimate.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
90.2% – 62.9%62.7% – 36.1%35.5% – 22.3%22.0% – 9.7%9.6% – 0.5%No data
1
🇹🇩Chad
90.2%
2
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
86.0%
3
🇲🇬Madagascar
84.4%
4
🇪🇹Ethiopia
84.1%
5
🇳🇪Niger
83.7%
6
🇲🇿Mozambique
83.7%
7
🇧🇮Burundi
83.7%
8
🇹🇿Tanzania
83.7%
9
🇦🇫Afghanistan
81.8%
10
🇨🇩DR Congo
81.5%
11
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
80.6%
12
🇨🇫Central African Republic
79.4%
13
🇬🇳Guinea
79.2%
14
🇧🇯Benin
78.5%
15
🇳🇵Nepal
77.0%
16
🇱🇷Liberia
76.9%
17
🇱🇦Laos
76.4%
18
🇭🇹Haiti
76.0%
19
🇨🇬Congo
75.9%
20
🇲🇱Mali
75.8%
21
🇹🇬Togo
75.0%
22
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
74.9%
23
🇺🇬Uganda
74.4%
24
🇮🇳India
71.6%
25
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
71.2%
26
🇿🇲Zambia
70.2%
27
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
69.4%
28
🇧🇹Bhutan
69.0%
29
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
68.7%
30
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
68.2%
31
🇨🇲Cameroon
67.6%
32
🇳🇬Nigeria
66.5%
33
🇦🇴Angola
66.3%
34
🇰🇪Kenya
63.8%
35
🇬🇲Gambia
63.5%
36
🇸🇳Senegal
63.0%
37
🇲🇲Myanmar
62.9%
38
🇧🇴Bolivia
62.7%
39
🇬🇭Ghana
60.0%
40
🇲🇼Malawi
59.9%
41
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
58.6%
42
🇲🇩Moldova
58.6%
43
🇻🇺Vanuatu
58.0%
44
🇧🇩Bangladesh
57.3%
45
🇰🇲Comoros
56.8%
46
🇰🇵North Korea
56.8%
47
🇵🇰Pakistan
55.5%
48
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
53.8%
49
🇲🇷Mauritania
53.3%
50
🇰🇭Cambodia
52.3%

Highlights

As of 2025, Chad ranks first with 90.2%, followed by Sierra Leone (86.0%) and Madagascar (84.4%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 90.2% (Chad) to 0.5% (Qatar), with a median of 29.0%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 9 from Africa and 1 from Asia.

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

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