Data · Prices, labour & income
Informal employment rate (% of total employment): Vietnam, 2007–2024
- Latest (2024)
- 67.0 %
- Source
- International Labour Organization
- Code
- EMP_NIFL_RT
- Frequency
- Yearly
What the series shows
The series runs from 2007 to 2024 (14 years of data). It moved from 81.9 to 67.0 %, a change of -18.2%. The highest value was 81.9 in 2007 and the lowest 67.0 in 2024. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 5 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (%) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 67.0 |
| 2023 | 67.7 |
| 2022 | 68.5 |
| 2021 | 70.4 |
| 2020 | 69.2 |
| 2019 | 69.7 |
| 2018 | 71.4 |
| 2017 | 73.3 |
| 2016 | 74.1 |
| 2015 | 75.5 |
| 2014 | 76.9 |
| 2013 | 79.5 |
| 2009 | 81.6 |
| 2007 | 81.9 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2024 | 67.0 |
| Thailand | 2024 | 63.2 |
| Indonesia | 2024 | 88.3 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 78.5 |
| Laos | 2022 | 90.5 |
| Myanmar | 2020 | 80.7 |
How to cite (APA 7)
International Labour Organization. (2026). Informal employment rate (% of total employment), Vietnam [Data set]. ILOSTAT. https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name ilo_emp_nifl_rt, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.