COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Burundi Vulnerable Employment
Burundi vulnerable employment: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
SL.EMP.VULN.ZS| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83,66 | -0,06 |
| 2024 | 83,73 | -0,06 |
| 2023 | 83,79 | 0,00 |
| 2022 | 83,78 | 0,00 |
| 2021 | 83,78 | -0,55 |
| 2020 | 84,33 | -0,41 |
| 2019 | 84,74 | -0,35 |
| 2018 | 85,09 | -0,36 |
| 2017 | 85,44 | -0,36 |
| 2016 | 85,80 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: Vulnerable employment is contributing family workers and own-account workers as a percentage of total employment.
Source organization: ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: estimates based on external database; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
Metadata fetched: 2026-09-27 07:05:13. Open original metadata response.
Revision history
8 detected changesSource revisions are retained before the current observation is replaced. This table documents the previous and replacement value for reproducibility.
| Detected | Data year | Previous value | Replacement value | Source | Source update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-28 17:02:41 | 2020 | 84,33 | 84,33 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 17:02:41 | 2021 | 83,78 | 83,78 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 17:02:41 | 2022 | 83,78 | 83,78 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 17:02:41 | 2023 | 83,79 | 83,79 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 17:02:41 | 2024 | 83,73 | 83,73 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 17:02:41 | 2025 | 83,66 | 83,66 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-27 02:07:09 | 2025 | 83,66 | 83,66 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-05 00:20:08 | 2025 | 83,66 | 83,66 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesBurundi recorded 83,66 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2024, the vulnerable employment decreased by 0,06.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.
Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 84,41; the minimum was 83,66 in 2025 and the maximum was 85,80 in 2016.
Burundi ranks 181 out of 187 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is above the available average for Sub-Saharan Africa.
It is also above the available average for the Low income group.
Employment quality and labor-market insecurity.