ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Share of employment by status of employment, workers not classified, rural areas — Value by country
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...
What the numbers show
ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Share of employment by status of employment, workers not classified, rural areas — Value is currently reported for 22 countries. The highest value is 39.2 % in Georgia; the lowest is 0 % in Spain.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.75 %, and the mean is 3.17 %.
Over the past decade 5 countries rose and 7 fell. The largest increase was in Egypt (up 10,600.0%), and the largest decrease in Spain (down 100.0%).
ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Share of employment by status of: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgia | 39.2 % | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 1 | Côte d'Ivoire | 1.3 % | 2019 | down 48.0% | volatile |
| 1 | Viet Nam | 0 % | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 2 | Egypt | 10.7 % | 2024 | up 10,600.0% | volatile |
| 3 | Pakistan | 3.7 % | 2025 | — | volatile |
| 4 | Mexico | 2.7 % | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 5 | Mongolia | 2.6 % | 2023 | up 766.7% | volatile |
| 6 | Austria | 2.1 % | 2024 | up 2,000.0% | volatile |
| 6 | Angola | 2.1 % | 2024 | down 16.0% | flat |
| 8 | India | 1.5 % | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 9 | Republic of Korea | 1.1 % | 2025 | down 15.4% | rising |
| 10 | Poland | 0.8 % | 2020 | down 27.3% | volatile |
| 11 | Luxembourg | 0.7 % | 2024 | up 133.3% | rising |
| 12 | Ecuador | 0.4 % | 2020 | unchanged | rising |
| 13 | Tunisia | 0.3 % | 2019 | down 81.2% | volatile |
| 13 | Bangladesh | 0.3 % | 2024 | up 200.0% | volatile |
| 15 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 0.1 % | 2018 | unchanged | volatile |
| 15 | Jamaica | 0.1 % | 2023 | down 66.7% | falling |
| 15 | Colombia | 0.1 % | 2025 | unchanged | falling |
| 18 | Greece | 0 % | 2002 | — | volatile |
| 18 | France | 0 % | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 18 | Spain | 0 % | 2009 | down 100.0% | volatile |
About this data
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.