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Vulnerable Employment, 2016

2016, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Vulnerable Employment, 2016 covers 187 countries. Chad is highest, at 89.9029; Qatar is lowest, at 0.2363. The middle country reads 29.9071. Against 2015, 187 values changed (64 up, 123 down), the same countries are covered.

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Vulnerable Employment · Data for 2016

HighestChad

89.9029

LowestQatar

0.2363

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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1ChadTCDMiddle Africa89.9029
2NigerNERWestern Africa89.5564
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa86.4536
4EthiopiaETHEastern Africa86.3623
5BurundiBDIEastern Africa85.8007
6MadagascarMDGEastern Africa85.4387
7TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa85.3318
8MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa83.8480
9AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia83.3065
10South SudanSSDEastern Africa82.9853
11BeninBENWestern Africa82.8342
12GuineaGINWestern Africa82.1438
13DR CongoCODMiddle Africa81.2064
14Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa80.8291
15MaliMLIWestern Africa80.2391
16TogoTGOWestern Africa79.9174
17Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa79.7276
18NepalNPLSouthern Asia79.6580
19LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia79.4815
20LiberiaLBRWestern Africa77.3159
21IndiaINDSouthern Asia77.2156
22UgandaUGAEastern Africa76.4552
23Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa76.0733
24Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa75.8922
25HaitiHTICaribbean74.2663

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Chad89.9029
  2. 2Niger89.5564
  3. 3Sierra Leone86.4536
  4. 4Ethiopia86.3623
  5. 5Burundi85.8007

Lowest

  1. 187Qatar0.2363
  2. 186United Arab Emirates0.8081
  3. 185Bahrain0.9940
  4. 184Kuwait1.1491
  5. 183Saudi Arabia2.2874

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 29.9071. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 64 · 123rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Senegal65.7912 → 70.6087+4.8175
  • Ecuador44.8841 → 48.6178+3.7337
  • Serbia26.3848 → 28.0684+1.6836
  • Panama32.4543 → 34.0134+1.5592
  • Belize26.1975 → 27.6771+1.4796

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 2016.

  • 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) (2016). Vulnerable Employment, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/vulnerable-employment/2016

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07Questions

Vulnerable Employment, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest vulnerable employment in Vulnerable Employment, 2016?

Chad, at 89.9029, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Vulnerable Employment, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Vulnerable Employment, 2016 cover?

187.

Where can I download Vulnerable Employment, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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