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💼 Largest Wage-Employment Shares

Wage and salaried workers as a share of total employment; ILO modeled estimate.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
99.2% – 86.3%86.1% – 73.9%73.4% – 58.7%58.2% – 33.0%32.5% – 8.4%No data
1
🇶🇦Qatar
99.2%
2
🇧🇭Bahrain
97.6%
3
🇰🇼Kuwait
96.8%
4
🇳🇴Norway
95.1%
5
🇴🇲Oman
95.0%
6
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
94.9%
7
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
94.5%
8
🇺🇸United States
93.9%
9
🇷🇺Russia
93.7%
10
🇲🇴Macau
93.2%
11
🇧🇾Belarus
93.2%
12
🇧🇳Brunei
92.7%
13
🇭🇰Hong Kong
92.3%
14
🇩🇰Denmark
92.1%
15
🇩🇪Germany
91.9%
16
🇯🇵Japan
90.9%
17
🇻🇮United States Virgin Islands
90.9%
18
🇨🇾Cyprus
89.8%
19
🇸🇪Sweden
89.8%
20
🇱🇺Luxembourg
89.7%
21
🇯🇴Jordan
88.8%
22
🇮🇱Israel
88.7%
23
🇱🇹Lithuania
88.5%
24
🇭🇺Hungary
88.4%
25
🇧🇬Bulgaria
88.2%
26
🇪🇪Estonia
87.9%
27
🇦🇹Austria
87.8%
28
🇫🇮Finland
87.5%
29
🇵🇷Puerto Rico
87.4%
30
🇸🇬Singapore
87.3%
31
🇭🇷Croatia
87.3%
32
🇨🇦Canada
87.1%
33
🇬🇧United Kingdom
86.9%
34
🇫🇷France
86.7%
35
🇮🇸Iceland
86.7%
36
🇮🇪Ireland
86.6%
37
🇱🇻Latvia
86.3%
38
🇲🇹Malta
86.1%
39
🇸🇮Slovenia
86.0%
40
🇵🇹Portugal
85.6%
41
🇷🇴Romania
85.5%
42
🇪🇸Spain
85.5%
43
🇧🇪Belgium
85.4%
44
🇸🇰Slovakia
85.1%
45
🇬🇺Guam
84.5%
46
🇨🇿Czechia
84.3%
47
🇦🇺Australia
83.9%
48
🇲🇰North Macedonia
83.4%
49
🇳🇱Netherlands
83.2%
50
🇨🇭Switzerland
83.1%

Highlights

As of 2025, Qatar ranks first with 99.2%, followed by Bahrain (97.6%) and Kuwait (96.8%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 99.2% (Qatar) to 8.4% (Chad), with a median of 68.0%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Asia, 2 from Europe and 1 from the Americas.

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

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