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Vulnerable Employment, 1999

1999, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Vulnerable Employment, 1999 covers 187 countries. Afghanistan is highest, at 94.896; United Arab Emirates is lowest, at 0.232. The middle country reads 34.572. Against 1998, 187 values changed (47 up, 140 down), the same countries are covered.

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Vulnerable Employment · Data for 1999

HighestAfghanistan

94.896

LowestUnited Arab Emirates

0.232

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Vulnerable Employment, 1999, as published. ILO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 187 countries · select a heading to sort

Vulnerable Employment, 1999: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia94.896
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa94.506
3GuineaGINWestern Africa91.082
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa90.493
5TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa90.151
6EthiopiaETHEastern Africa89.339
7MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa89.207
8LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia88.062
9BurundiBDIEastern Africa86.947
10BeninBENWestern Africa85.264
11MaliMLIWestern Africa84.520
12NigerNERWestern Africa84.510
13NepalNPLSouthern Asia84.211
14IndiaINDSouthern Asia84.000
15Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa82.553
16ZambiaZMBEastern Africa82.216
17CameroonCMRMiddle Africa81.924
18AngolaAGOMiddle Africa81.892
19DR CongoCODMiddle Africa81.880
20TogoTGOWestern Africa81.869
21LiberiaLBRWestern Africa81.518
22South SudanSSDEastern Africa80.706
23UgandaUGAEastern Africa80.165
24Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa80.151
25MadagascarMDGEastern Africa79.913

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan94.896
  2. 2Chad94.506
  3. 3Guinea91.082
  4. 4Sierra Leone90.493
  5. 5Tanzania90.151

Lowest

  1. 187United Arab Emirates0.232
  2. 186Qatar0.715
  3. 185Bahrain2.166
  4. 184Kuwait3.009
  5. 183United States Virgin Islands4.400

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 34.572. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 47 · 140rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1999.

  • The position is ours

    ILO publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 187 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (1999). Vulnerable Employment, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/vulnerable-employment/1999

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07Questions

Vulnerable Employment, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest vulnerable employment in Vulnerable Employment, 1999?

Afghanistan, at 94.896, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Vulnerable Employment, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Vulnerable Employment, 1999 cover?

187.

Where can I download Vulnerable Employment, 1999?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Vulnerable Employment, 1999 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Vulnerable Employment, 2025.

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