COUNTRY / INDICATOR
New Zealand Vulnerable Employment
New Zealand 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 | 12,57 | -0,14 |
| 2024 | 12,71 | -0,36 |
| 2023 | 13,07 | -0,17 |
| 2022 | 13,24 | -0,27 |
| 2021 | 13,51 | -0,32 |
| 2020 | 13,83 | 0,19 |
| 2019 | 13,65 | -0,20 |
| 2018 | 13,84 | -0,17 |
| 2017 | 14,01 | -0,12 |
| 2016 | 14,13 | — |
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)
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Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesNew Zealand recorded 12,57 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2024, the vulnerable employment decreased by 0,14.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.
Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 13,46; the minimum was 12,57 in 2025 and the maximum was 14,13 in 2016.
New Zealand ranks 50 out of 187 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for East Asia & Pacific.
It is also above the available average for the High income group.
Employment quality and labor-market insecurity.