Argentina: informal employment rate 2022

In 2022, the percentage of informal employment in Argentina stood at 51 percent of the total employed population. The share of employment informality has increased in comparison to the previous year, registering the lowest value since the beginning of the decade. Argentina is among the countries with the lowest share of informal employment in Latin America.

Informal employment as percentage of total employment in Argentina between 2010 and 2022

Characteristic	Share of total employment
2022	51%
2021	48.9%
2020	46.8%
2019	49.7%
2018	48.5%
2017	48.3%
2014	47.2%
2013	47.8%
2012	48.2%
2011	48.1%
2010	48.9%

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Release date

September 2023

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Region

Argentina

Survey time period

2010 to 2022

Supplementary notes

* No data available for 2015 or 2016.

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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