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Yemen, Rep. Vulnerable Employment

Yemen, Rep. vulnerable employment: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.

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Series overview

SL.EMP.VULN.ZS

COUNTRY: Yemen, Rep.INDICATOR: SL.EMP.VULN.ZSUNIT: percentSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-09-30 06:21:17REVISIONS: 14ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

45,59Latest / 2025

0,07Change from previous

45,17Series average

128Global rank / 187

Yemen, Rep. / Vulnerable Employment Unit: Percent (%)

Selected year: 202545,59%

201620252025

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Year	Value	Change
2025	45,59	0,07
2024	45,52	0,09
2023	45,42	0,12
2022	45,30	0,16
2021	45,14	-0,77
2020	45,91	0,57
2019	45,35	0,32
2018	45,03	0,47
2017	44,55	0,62
2016	43,93	—

Source methodology

World Development Indicators

Indicator 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

14 detected changes

Source 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
2026-09-30 04:21:17	2020	45,91	45,91	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-30 04:21:17	2021	45,14	45,14	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-30 04:21:17	2022	45,30	45,30	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-30 04:21:17	2023	45,42	45,42	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-30 04:21:17	2024	45,52	45,52	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-30 04:21:17	2025	45,59	45,59	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-27 02:07:09	2025	45,59	45,59	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-07 07:48:14	2020	45,91	45,91	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-07 07:48:14	2021	45,14	45,14	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-07 07:48:14	2022	45,30	45,30	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-07 07:48:14	2023	45,42	45,42	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-07 07:48:14	2024	45,52	45,52	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-07 07:48:14	2025	45,59	45,59	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 00:20:09	2025	45,59	45,59	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Yemen, Rep. recorded 45,59 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2024, the vulnerable employment increased by 0,07.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.

Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 45,17; the minimum was 43,93 in 2016 and the maximum was 45,91 in 2020.

Yemen, Rep. ranks 128 out of 187 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is above the available average for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan.

It is also below the available average for the Low income group.

Employment quality and labor-market insecurity.

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