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Vulnerable employment, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate): Vietnam, 1991–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 51.4 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SL.EMP.VULN.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Vulnerable employment is contributing family workers and own-account workers as a percentage of total employment.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1991 to 2025 (35 years of data). It moved from 77.8 to 51.4 %, a change of -34.0%. The highest value was 77.8 in 1991 and the lowest 51.4 in 2025. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 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 (%) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 51.4 |
| 2024 | 51.9 |
| 2023 | 52.3 |
| 2022 | 52.8 |
| 2021 | 53.2 |
| 2020 | 53.1 |
| 2019 | 53.2 |
| 2018 | 53.9 |
| 2017 | 55.1 |
| 2016 | 55.9 |
| 2015 | 57.8 |
| 2014 | 62.2 |
| 2013 | 62.7 |
| 2012 | 62.5 |
| 2011 | 62.4 |
| 2010 | 62.7 |
| 2009 | 61.6 |
| 2008 | 63.2 |
| 2007 | 64.8 |
| 2006 | 65.3 |
| 2005 | 65.8 |
| 2004 | 66.4 |
| 2003 | 70.1 |
| 2002 | 71.6 |
| 2001 | 71.2 |
| 2000 | 73.7 |
| 1999 | 74.2 |
| 1998 | 71.3 |
| 1997 | 74.0 |
| 1996 | 75.1 |
| 1995 | 75.7 |
| 1994 | 76.1 |
| 1993 | 76.8 |
| 1992 | 77.4 |
| 1991 | 77.8 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 51.4 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 48.0 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 50.0 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 21.9 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 33.6 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 9.3 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 52.3 |
| Laos | 2025 | 76.4 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 62.9 |
| China | 2025 | 33.4 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Vulnerable employment, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.EMP.VULN.ZS?locations=VN
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 sl_emp_vuln_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.