Around 73.4 percent of the employed Costa Ricans held “paid employment jobs” in 2019, or jobs where they held employment contracts with right to basic remuneration. Additionally, the shares of own-account workers has continuously increased in recent years, reaching 21.3 percent in the last year. The share of employees in Costa Rica's workforce was among the highest for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Distribution of total employed population in Costa Rica from 2015 to 2019, by status
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Employees
Own-account workers
Employers
Contributing family workers
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The source provides the following additional information:
"The employed comprise all persons of working age who, during a specified brief period, were in one of the following categories: a) paid employment (whether at work or with a job but not at work); or b) self-employment (whether at work or with an enterprise but not at work). Data are disaggregated by status in employment according to the latest version of the International Standard Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-93). Status in employment refers to the type of explicit or implicit contract of employment the person has with other persons or organizations. The basic criteria used to define the groups of the classification are the type of economic risk and the type of authority over establishments and other workers which the job incumbents have or will have."
Percentage points missing or exceeding 100 percent are due to rounding.
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ILO. (May 26, 2021). Distribution of total employed population in Costa Rica from 2015 to 2019, by status [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 25, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039387/distribution-employed-population-status-costa-rica/
ILO. "Distribution of total employed population in Costa Rica from 2015 to 2019, by status." Chart. May 26, 2021. Statista. Accessed August 25, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039387/distribution-employed-population-status-costa-rica/
ILO. (2021). Distribution of total employed population in Costa Rica from 2015 to 2019, by status. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: August 25, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039387/distribution-employed-population-status-costa-rica/
ILO. "Distribution of Total Employed Population in Costa Rica from 2015 to 2019, by Status." Statista, Statista Inc., 26 May 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039387/distribution-employed-population-status-costa-rica/
ILO, Distribution of total employed population in Costa Rica from 2015 to 2019, by status Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039387/distribution-employed-population-status-costa-rica/ (last visited August 25, 2024)
Distribution of total employed population in Costa Rica from 2015 to 2019, by status [Graph], ILO, May 26, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039387/distribution-employed-population-status-costa-rica/