Wage Salaried Workers % — 2024

Top Country
Qatar
99.17 %
Countries Ranked
181
World Bank data
Data Year
2024
Latest available
Source
World Bank
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Top 20 — Wage Salaried Workers

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Rank Country Value Bar
1 Qatar 99.17 %
2 Bahrain 97.46 %
3 Kuwait 96.91 %
4 Norway 95.06 %
5 Oman 95.04 %
6 United Arab Emirates 94.86 %
7 Saudi Arabia 94.43 %
8 United States 93.81 %
9 Russian Federation 93.60 %
10 Belarus 93.01 %
11 Macao 92.93 %
12 Brunei Darussalam 92.62 %
13 Hong Kong 92.20 %
14 Denmark 91.95 %
15 Germany 91.82 %
16 Virgin Islands, U.S. 90.92 %
17 Japan 90.75 %
18 Cyprus 90.06 %
19 Sweden 89.70 %
20 Luxembourg 89.69 %
21 Jordan 88.65 %
22 Israel 88.57 %
23 Lithuania 88.32 %
24 Hungary 88.21 %
25 Bulgaria 88.06 %
26 Estonia 87.93 %
27 Austria 87.79 %
28 Finland 87.46 %
29 Puerto Rico 87.35 %
30 Singapore 87.18 %
31 Canada 86.98 %
32 Croatia 86.94 %
33 United Kingdom 86.78 %
34 France 86.66 %
35 Iceland 86.66 %
36 Ireland 86.56 %
37 Latvia 86.25 %
38 Malta 85.95 %
39 Slovenia 85.89 %
40 Portugal 85.47 %
41 Romania 85.34 %
42 Belgium 85.32 %
43 Spain 85.30 %
44 Slovakia 85.05 %
45 Guam 84.35 %
46 Czechia 84.15 %
47 Australia 83.78 %
48 North Macedonia 83.18 %
49 Netherlands 83.17 %
50 Switzerland 83.15 %
51 New Caledonia 83.02 %
52 Bahamas 82.94 %
53 South Africa 82.71 %
54 Montenegro 82.22 %
55 Mauritius 81.82 %
56 French Polynesia 81.62 %
57 New Zealand 81.40 %
58 Poland 80.99 %
59 Barbados 80.20 %
60 Maldives 79.66 %
61 Italy 78.75 %
62 Bosnia and Herzegovina 77.62 %
63 Suriname 77.23 %
64 Korea, Republic of 77.14 %
65 Chile 75.96 %
66 Cuba 75.08 %
67 Tunisia 74.95 %
68 Malaysia 74.51 %
69 Trinidad and Tobago 74.31 %
70 Argentina 74.28 %
71 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 74.12 %
72 Kazakhstan 73.79 %
73 Libya 73.73 %
74 Costa Rica 73.19 %
75 Saint Lucia 73.14 %
76 Egypt 72.88 %
77 Serbia 72.78 %
78 Equatorial Guinea 72.74 %
79 Uruguay 71.90 %
80 Botswana 71.85 %
81 Türkiye 71.16 %
82 Algeria 69.62 %
83 Eswatini 69.55 %
84 Brazil 69.49 %
85 Greece 69.30 %
86 Mexico 69.17 %
87 Kyrgyzstan 68.97 %
88 Tajikistan 68.45 %
89 Iraq 68.43 %
90 Guyana 68.35 %
91 Turkmenistan 67.86 %
92 Gabon 67.55 %
93 Armenia 65.69 %
94 Fiji 65.62 %
95 Belize 64.67 %
96 Jamaica 64.15 %
97 El Salvador 63.98 %
98 Philippines 63.54 %
99 Namibia 63.21 %
100 China 61.95 %
101 Lesotho 61.35 %
102 Cabo Verde 61.12 %
103 Guatemala 60.71 %
104 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 59.65 %
105 Morocco 59.59 %
106 Panama 59.38 %
107 Rwanda 59.07 %
108 Mongolia 58.44 %
109 Paraguay 58.41 %
110 Tonga 57.93 %
111 Sri Lanka 57.85 %
112 Dominican Republic 57.77 %
113 Syrian Arab Republic 57.53 %
114 Iran, Islamic Republic of 56.83 %
115 Sao Tome and Principe 55.91 %
116 Honduras 55.63 %
117 Nicaragua 55.49 %
118 Samoa 55.25 %
119 Uzbekistan 54.33 %
120 Colombia 54.25 %
121 Georgia 53.43 %
122 Albania 49.39 %
123 Thailand 49.17 %
124 Djibouti 48.73 %
125 Peru 48.29 %
126 Somalia 47.75 %
127 Ecuador 47.65 %
128 Eritrea 47.43 %
129 Yemen 47.42 %
130 Indonesia 46.32 %
131 Viet Nam 46.19 %
132 Cambodia 44.21 %
133 Pakistan 42.78 %
134 Mauritania 42.28 %
135 Comoros 41.98 %
136 Moldova, Republic of 41.28 %
137 Vanuatu 39.38 %
138 Malawi 38.68 %
139 Bangladesh 38.57 %
140 Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 37.87 %
141 Senegal 35.34 %
142 Kenya 35.05 %
143 Myanmar 34.54 %
144 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 33.49 %
145 Azerbaijan 32.82 %
146 Ghana 32.15 %
147 Gambia 31.02 %
148 Cameroon 30.43 %
149 Bhutan 30.10 %
150 Solomon Islands 29.91 %
151 Zimbabwe 29.10 %
152 Côte d'Ivoire 28.68 %
153 Zambia 27.94 %
154 Timor-Leste 24.95 %
155 India 24.61 %
156 Guinea-Bissau 24.32 %
157 Angola 24.14 %
158 Haiti 23.21 %
159 Mali 23.11 %
160 Congo 23.11 %
161 Togo 22.95 %
162 Lao People's Democratic Republic 22.60 %
163 Liberia 21.38 %
164 Nepal 21.16 %
165 Papua New Guinea 21.15 %
166 Benin 19.77 %
167 Uganda 19.29 %
168 Guinea 17.75 %
169 Burkina Faso 17.16 %
170 Afghanistan 16.64 %
171 Ethiopia 15.37 %
172 Burundi 15.08 %
173 Congo, The Democratic Republic of the 14.66 %
174 Mozambique 14.54 %
175 Central African Republic 14.52 %
176 Tanzania, United Republic of 14.45 %
177 Nigeria 13.58 %
178 Madagascar 11.48 %
179 Sierra Leone 10.96 %
180 Niger 10.26 %
181 Chad 8.49 %
About This Indicator

Wage and salaried workers (employees) are those workers who hold the type of jobs defined as "paid employment jobs," where the incumbents hold explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts that give them a basic remuneration that is not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work.

Source: World Bank Development Indicators
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