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"name": "Netherlands", "code": "NLD"}, {"id": 102, "name": "Norway", "code": "NOR"}, {"id": 107, "name": "Nepal", "code": "NPL"}, {"id": 106, "name": "New Zealand", "code": "NZL"}, {"id": 217, "name": "Oman", "code": "OMN"}, {"id": 101, "name": "Pakistan", "code": "PAK"}, {"id": 100, "name": "Panama", "code": "PAN"}, {"id": 97, "name": "Peru", "code": "PER"}, {"id": 96, "name": "Philippines", "code": "PHL"}, {"id": 99, "name": "Papua New Guinea", "code": "PNG"}, {"id": 11, "name": "Poland", "code": "POL"}, {"id": 93, "name": "Puerto Rico", "code": "PRI"}, {"id": 128, "name": "North Korea", "code": "PRK"}, {"id": 95, "name": "Portugal", "code": "PRT"}, {"id": 98, "name": "Paraguay", "code": "PRY"}, {"id": 140, "name": "Palestine", "code": "PSE"}, {"id": 203, "name": "French Polynesia", "code": "PYF"}, {"id": 226, "name": "Qatar", "code": "QAT"}, {"id": 92, "name": "Romania", "code": "ROU"}, {"id": 12, "name": "Russia", "code": "RUS"}, {"id": 91, "name": "Rwanda", "code": "RWA"}, {"id": 90, "name": "Saudi Arabia", "code": "SAU"}, {"id": 79, "name": "Sudan", "code": "SDN"}, {"id": 89, "name": "Senegal", "code": "SEN"}, {"id": 86, "name": "Singapore", "code": "SGP"}, {"id": 195, "name": "Solomon Islands", "code": "SLB"}, {"id": 87, "name": "Sierra Leone", "code": "SLE"}, {"id": 259, "name": "El Salvador", "code": "SLV"}, {"id": 82, "name": "Somalia", "code": "SOM"}, {"id": 88, "name": "Serbia", "code": "SRB"}, {"id": 258, "name": "South Sudan", "code": "SSD"}, {"id": 232, "name": "Sao Tome and Principe", "code": "STP"}, {"id": 234, "name": "Suriname", "code": "SUR"}, {"id": 85, "name": "Slovakia", "code": "SVK"}, {"id": 83, "name": "Slovenia", "code": "SVN"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 78, "name": "Eswatini", "code": "SWZ"}, {"id": 77, "name": "Syria", "code": "SYR"}, {"id": 173, "name": "Chad", "code": "TCD"}, {"id": 74, "name": "Togo", "code": "TGO"}, {"id": 75, "name": "Thailand", "code": "THA"}, {"id": 76, "name": "Tajikistan", "code": "TJK"}, {"id": 69, "name": "Turkmenistan", "code": "TKM"}, {"id": 225, "name": "East Timor", "code": "TLS"}, {"id": 235, "name": "Tonga", "code": "TON"}, {"id": 73, "name": "Trinidad and Tobago", "code": "TTO"}, {"id": 71, "name": "Tunisia", "code": "TUN"}, {"id": 70, "name": "Turkey", "code": "TUR"}, {"id": 198, "name": "Taiwan", "code": "TWN"}, {"id": 64, "name": "Tanzania", "code": "TZA"}, {"id": 68, "name": "Uganda", "code": "UGA"}, {"id": 67, "name": "Ukraine", "code": "UKR"}, {"id": 63, "name": "Uruguay", "code": "URY"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}, {"id": 62, "name": "Uzbekistan", "code": "UZB"}, {"id": 230, "name": "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines", "code": "VCT"}, {"id": 238, "name": "Venezuela", "code": "VEN"}, {"id": 256, "name": "United States Virgin Islands", "code": "VIR"}, {"id": 84, "name": "Vietnam", "code": "VNM"}, {"id": 221, "name": "Vanuatu", "code": "VUT"}, {"id": 239, "name": "Samoa", "code": "WSM"}, {"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}, {"id": 461, "name": "Low-income countries", "code": "OWID_LIC"}, {"id": 460, "name": "Lower-middle-income countries", "code": "OWID_LMC"}, {"id": 459, "name": "Upper-middle-income countries", "code": "OWID_UMC"}, {"id": 457, "name": "High-income countries", "code": "OWID_HIC"}, {"id": 367389, "name": "Africa (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372017, "name": "Eastern Africa (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372034, "name": "Western Africa (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372030, "name": "Americas (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372023, "name": "Central America (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372035, "name": "South America (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372019, "name": "Northern America (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372038, "name": "Arab States (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372033, "name": "Asia and the Pacific (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372024, "name": "Eastern Asia (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372043, "name": "Pacific Islands (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372041, "name": "Southern Asia (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372040, "name": "Northern Europe (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372027, "name": "Southern Europe (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372042, "name": "Western Europe (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372044, "name": "Eastern Europe (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372032, "name": "Central Asia (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372021, "name": "Central and Western Asia (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 372031, "name": "Western Asia (ILO)", "code": null}, {"id": 34546, "name": "ASEAN", "code": null}, {"id": 372029, "name": "Arab League", "code": null}, {"id": 115117, "name": "European Union (27)", "code": "OWID_EU27"}, {"id": 37263, "name": "APEC", "code": null}, {"id": 372036, "name": "World: Upper-middle income excluding China", "code": null}, {"id": 61, "name": "Yemen", "code": "YEM"}, {"id": 81, "name": "South Africa", "code": "ZAF"}, {"id": 60, "name": "Zambia", "code": "ZMB"}, {"id": 80, "name": "Zimbabwe", "code": "ZWE"}]}}, "descriptionShort": "Share of people in employment working as employees, as a percentage of total employment.", "descriptionFromProducer": "**Imputed observations are not based on national data, are subject to high uncertainty and should not be used for country comparisons or rankings.** This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. The employed comprise all persons of working age who, during a specified brief period, were in one of the following categories: a) paid employment (whether at work or with a job but not at work); or b) self-employment (whether at work or with an enterprise but not at work). Data disaggregated by status in employment are provided according to the latest version of the International Standard Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-93). Data may have been regrouped from the national classifications, which may not be strictly compatible with ICSE. For more information, refer to the [ILO Modelled Estimates (ILOEST) database description](https://ilostat.ilo.org/methods/concepts-and-definitions/ilo-modelled-estimates/).", "descriptionProcessing": "We calculated this indicator by dividing the number of people in a specific employment status by the total number of employed people, then multiplying by 100 to express it as a percentage.\n\nWe excluded projections from the ILO Modelled Estimates (ILOEST) series. These projections are indicated by the absence of an observation status (`obs_status`) across all countries in a given year.\"", "type": "float", "dataChecksum": "8049622042802577416", "metadataChecksum": "1557380290907581621", "datasetName": "ILOSTAT", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-02-03", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Share of employment - Total - Status in employment (ICSE-93): 1. Employees", "unit": "%", "shortUnit": "%", "tolerance": 5, "numDecimalPlaces": 1}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"attributionShort": "ILO", "topicTagsLinks": ["Work & Employment"]}, "descriptionKey": ["Employment refers to people who worked for at least an hour during the reference period (typically a week), whether in paid employment or self-employment.", "Employees are defined as workers in paid employment jobs. Paid employment refers to all jobs where people hold an employment contract which gives them remuneration not dependent upon the revenue of the organization for which they work. This status in employment is provided according to the [International Standard Classification of Status in Employment](https://ilostat.ilo.org/methods/concepts-and-definitions/classification-status-at-work/) (ICSE-93).", "In some countries, self-employed workers who operate incorporated businesses are counted as employees, which can limit the comparability of self-employment estimates across countries.", "When defining the working-age population, the definition of \u201cworking age\u201d varies across countries, depending on national laws and practices. In the ILO modeled estimates shown here, this is harmonized to refer to people aged 15 and older.", "This data comes from the ILO Modelled Estimates series. The [International Labour Organization (ILO)](#dod:ilo) combines countries' own reported estimates with statistically modeled estimates when observations are missing. This improves comparability across countries and over time and allows the ILO to calculate regional and global aggregates for every year. You can read more about how the ILO produces these estimates in the [Modelled Estimates documentation](https://ilostat.ilo.org/methods/concepts-and-definitions/ilo-modelled-estimates/).", "This data follows the standards of the [13th International Classification of Labour Statisticians (ICLS)](#dod:13-icls). Under this framework, employment includes work for pay or profit, including self-employment, as well as the production of goods for own use (such as subsistence farming). Changes in the definition of employment also affect who is counted as unemployed or outside the labor force. Because definitions were updated under the [19th ICLS](#dod:19-icls), data using the newer definitions is not fully comparable with data based on the 13th ICLS. You can read more about the definitions in [this explainer by the ILO](https://www.ilo.org/publications/quick-guide-understanding-impact-new-statistical-standards-ilostat)."], "origins": [{"id": 12491, "title": "ILOSTAT", "description": "The ILO\u2019s main online database, ILOSTAT, maintained by the Department of Statistics, is the world\u2019s largest repository of labour market statistics. It covers all countries and regions and a wide range of labour-related topics, including employment, unemployment, wages, working time and labour productivity, to name a few. It includes time series going back as far as 1938; annual, quarterly and monthly labour statistics; country-level, regional and global estimates; and even projections of the main labour market indicators.", "producer": "International Labour Organization", "citationFull": "International Labour Organization. (2026). ILO modelled estimates database, ILOSTAT [database]. Available from https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/.", "attributionShort": "ILO", "urlMain": "https://ilostat.ilo.org/", "dateAccessed": "2026-02-11", "datePublished": "2026-02-11", "license": {"url": "https://www.ilo.org/rights-and-permissions#data", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}