El Salvador: informal employment share 2021

In 2021, the percentage of informal employment in El Salvador stood at 69 percent of the total employed population. The share of employment informality reached its highest level in the decade in 2011 and 2012, with 72.6 percent, and its lowest in 2018, at 68.5 percent of the labor force considered informally employed. El Salvador is one of the Latin American countries with the highest levels of informal employment.

Informal employment as percentage of total employment in El Salvador from 2010 to 2021

Characteristic	Share of total employment
2021	69%
2020	68.8%
2019	69.1%
2018	68.5%
2017	70.2%
2016	69.4%
2015	69%
2014	69.3%
2013	71.4%
2012	72.6%
2011	72.6%
2010	72.5%

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September 2022

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Region

El Salvador

Survey time period

2010 to 2021

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."

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