Peru: informal employment share 2021

In 2021, the percentage of informal employment in Peru stood at 68.4 percent of the total employed population. This means that over two thirds of Peruvian workers were considered informally employed. Although this percentage decrease in comparison to the previous year, Peru is still one of the Latin American countries with the highest level of informal employment.

Informal employment as percentage of total employment in Peru from 2010 to 2021

Characteristic	Share of total employment
2021	68.4%
2020	70.1%
2019	68.4%
2018	68.5%
2017	68.1%
2016	68.1%
2015	69.2%
2014	68.6%
2013	69.8%
2012	70.7%
2011	75.6%
2010	76.8%

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September 2022

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Peru

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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