COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Guinea-Bissau Vulnerable Employment
Guinea-Bissau 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 | 74,94 | -0,22 |
| 2024 | 75,16 | -0,21 |
| 2023 | 75,38 | -0,22 |
| 2022 | 75,59 | -0,20 |
| 2021 | 75,79 | -0,47 |
| 2020 | 76,26 | 0,76 |
| 2019 | 75,50 | -0,19 |
| 2018 | 75,69 | -0,23 |
| 2017 | 75,91 | -0,16 |
| 2016 | 76,07 | — |
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
20 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 18:18:25 | 2020 | 76,26 | 76,26 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 18:18:25 | 2021 | 75,79 | 75,79 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 18:18:25 | 2022 | 75,59 | 75,59 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 18:18:25 | 2023 | 75,38 | 75,38 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 18:18:25 | 2024 | 75,16 | 75,16 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 18:18:25 | 2025 | 74,94 | 74,94 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-27 02:07:09 | 2025 | 74,94 | 74,94 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-07 06:11:14 | 2020 | 76,26 | 76,26 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-07 06:11:14 | 2021 | 75,79 | 75,79 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-07 06:11:14 | 2022 | 75,59 | 75,59 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-07 06:11:14 | 2023 | 75,38 | 75,38 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-07 06:11:14 | 2024 | 75,16 | 75,16 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-07 06:11:14 | 2025 | 74,94 | 74,94 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-08 12:58:11 | 2020 | 76,26 | 76,26 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-08 12:58:11 | 2021 | 75,79 | 75,79 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-08 12:58:11 | 2022 | 75,59 | 75,59 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-08 12:58:11 | 2023 | 75,38 | 75,38 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-08 12:58:11 | 2024 | 75,16 | 75,16 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-08 12:58:11 | 2025 | 74,94 | 74,94 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-05 00:20:08 | 2025 | 74,94 | 74,94 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesGuinea-Bissau recorded 74,94 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2024, the vulnerable employment decreased by 0,22.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.
Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 75,63; the minimum was 74,94 in 2025 and the maximum was 76,26 in 2020.
Guinea-Bissau ranks 165 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.