Share of informal employment in Bolivia 2022

In 2022, the percentage of informal employment in Bolivia stood at 83.7 percent of the total employed population. The share of employment informality has increased over two percentage points in comparison to the year 2019, when 81.5 percent of workers were considered informally employed. Bolivia is one of the Latin American countries with the highest level of informal employment.

Informal employment as percentage of total employment in Bolivia from 2011 to 2022

Characteristic	Share of total employment
2022	83.7%
2019	81.5%
2018	80.7%
2017	79.1%
2016	76.2%
2015	84.1%
2014	85.2%
2013	80.4%
2012	82.1%
2011	83.4%

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Release date

November 2023

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Region

Bolivia

Survey time period

2011 to 2022

Supplementary notes

According to the source's definition: "Employment in the informal sector refers all persons who, during a given reference period, were employed in at least one informal sector enterprise, irrespective of their status in employment and whether it was their main or a secondary job. An informal sector enterprise is (1) an unincorporated enterprise and (2) a market enterprise (i.e., it sells at least some of the goods or services it produces), and (3) meets at least one of the following criteria: (i) the enterprise is not registered, (ii) the employees of the enterprise are not registered, or (iii) the number of persons engaged on a continuous basis is below a threshold determined by the country."

The source does not provide data for 2020 and 2021. The release date given is the last update date provided by the source.

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