ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Share of employment by status of in Angola

Angola: ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Share of employment by status of was 84.8 % in 2024. ▬ Flat

Latest (2024)
84.8 %
Change on year
down 7.1%
World rank
4th
of 72 countries
All-time high
92.8 %
in 2022
All-time low
84.8 %
in 2024
Years of data
6
2019–2024

ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Share of employment by status of in Angola, 2019–2024

0204060801002019202120242019: 90.9 %2020: 91.5 %2021: 91.9 %2022: 92.8 %2023: 91.3 %2024: 84.8 %

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in %.

Analysis

Angola recorded 84.8 % for ilostat - labour force survey — share of employment by status of in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 6 years on record.

That represents a change of down 7.1% on the previous year and down 6.7% over ten years.

Angola ranks 4th of 72 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Share of employment by status of in Angola, year by year

Annual values for ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Share of employment by status of employment, self-employed, rural areas — Value in Angola, 2019 to 2024.
Year % Change
2019 90.9 %
2020 91.5 % +0.7%
2021 91.9 % +0.4%
2022 92.8 % +1.0%
2023 91.3 % -1.6%
2024 84.8 % -7.1%

Angola compared with similar countries

  • Angola's 84.8 % is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 71.3 %, 1.2× the median. (12 countries reporting)
  • Angola's 84.8 % is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 77.7 %, 1.1× the median. (8 countries reporting)

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2010s 90.9 % 90.9 % 90.9 % 1
2020s 90.46 % 84.8 % 92.8 % 5

Countries ranked near Angola

  1. 1 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 85.2 % compare
  2. 1 Côte d'Ivoire 78.4 %
  3. 1 Mali 94.2 % compare
  4. 2 Mongolia 87.7 % compare
  5. 2 Republic of Moldova 67.2 % compare
  6. 3 Türkiye 64.9 %
  7. 3 Zambia 87.4 % compare
  8. 4 Viet Nam 57 % compare
  9. 5 India 83.6 % compare
  10. 6 Senegal 80.2 % compare
  11. 7 Zimbabwe 75.2 % compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is ilostat - labour force survey — share of employment by status of in Angola?
Ilostat - labour force survey — share of employment by status of in Angola was 84.8 % in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest ilostat - labour force survey — share of employment by status of recorded in Angola?
The highest recorded value was 92.8 % in 2022.
What is the lowest ilostat - labour force survey — share of employment by status of recorded in Angola?
The lowest recorded value was 84.8 % in 2024.
How does Angola rank for ilostat - labour force survey — share of employment by status of?
Angola ranks 4th out of 72 countries with data for 2024.
Is ilostat - labour force survey — share of employment by status of rising or falling in Angola?
Over the last ten years it is down 6.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
Where does this Angola data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Share of employment by status of employment, self-employed, rural areas — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Share of employment by status of employment, self-employed, rural areas — Value
Unit
%
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
78 places, 1,460 data points, 1987–2025
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The FAOSTAT Employment indicators domain focuses on indicators related to employment in agrifood systems and rural areas. The update is performed yearly, using data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) database that contains a rich set of indicators from a wide range of topics related to labour statistics. The indicators published in FAOSTAT are derived from the labour force statistics (LFS) and rural and urban labour markets (RURURB) databases of the ILOSTAT database.