Countries With the Lowest Vulnerable Employment

Every country with a figure for vulnerable employment, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Qatar (0.456%), Bahrain (0.749%) and United Arab Emirates (1.5%). The middle country of the 187 has 28.4%.

What this measures

Vulnerable employment, total (% of total employment), in % of employment. Source: International Labour Organization. For this measure, higher is worse.

Self-employed workers and unpaid family workers, who have no employer and usually no protection. The ILO estimates it with a model for every country and year, which is why it is complete where surveys are not.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2021–2025. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on vulnerable employment

• Countries With the Highest Vulnerable Employment
• Vulnerable employment by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Lowest Active Labour Market Spending
• Countries With the Lowest Unemployment Benefit Spending
• Countries With the Lowest Retirement Age, Men
• Countries With the Lowest Retirement Age, Women
• Countries With the Lowest Hours Worked
• Countries With the Lowest Informal Employment
• Countries With the Lowest Unemployment
• Countries With the Lowest Female Labor Participation

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.