Taiwan

Taiwan — Vulnerable employment

TW desk: World Bank does not publish Taiwan on these series; Korea, United States, Japan, China, euro area, United Kingdom and Australia alongside.

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No official series for this economy on this indicator.

YearVulnerable employment
202517.69%
202417.85%
202318.19%
202218.59%
202119.11%
202019.33%
201918.97%
201818.97%
201719.39%
201619.51%
201519.71%
201419.84%
201320.37%
201220.76%
201120.86%
201021.24%
200921.92%
200822.95%
200723.25%
200623.61%
200524.02%
200424.24%
200324.59%
200225.38%
#CountryVulnerable employmentChangeYear
82China33.40%−0.41 pp2025
126Korea, Rep.17.69%−0.16 pp2025143United Kingdom11.53%−0.08 pp2025155Euro area9.34%−0.08 pp2025156Singapore9.30%−0.13 pp2025157Australia9.12%−0.06 pp2025
166Japan7.49%−0.15 pp2025
182United States3.81%−0.04 pp2025

What vulnerable employment is

This source does not publish this series for this economy. Related figures on this desk still come from the official files.

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Source: World Bank Open Data. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (terms).

Reading this series

This series is vulnerable employment as a share of total employment. It counts own-account workers and contributing family workers, who are less likely than employees to have formal contracts, regular income or social insurance. The source is World Bank Open Data indicator SL.EMP.VULN.ZS, a modelled ILO estimate, and the unit is a percentage of total employment. It measures the structure of work, not earnings; a high reading does not by itself say what people are paid.

The two components overlap with informality but are not identical to it, and national definitions vary. Because the series is modelled, values are estimates assembled from surveys and censuses and revised as inputs change. Use the chart and range buttons for the trend in one economy and the table for the latest published figure. Comparisons are fairer over time and at a broad level than between economies with a one- or two-point gap. Definitions of own-account work differ, so treat the level as indicative.

About this desk

Taiwan is a comparison desk. World Bank does not publish these labour series for Taiwan, and ILOSTAT earnings coverage is uneven. Only available producer-published observations appear.

Output per worker and employment-share indicators come from World Bank Open Data. The employment shares are ILO-modelled estimates published by the Bank. Each page gives its indicator and source link.

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