Dominican Republic: informal employment share 2022

In 2022, the percentage of informal employment in the Dominican Republic stood at 56.5 percent of the total employed population. The share of employment informality has slightly decreased by 0.8 percentage points in comparison to the previous year, when 57.3 percent of workers were considered informally employed. In 2022, the D.R. had a higher level of informal employment than other Latin American countries.

Informal employment as percentage of total employment in the Dominican Republic from 2010 to 2022

Characteristic	Share of total employment
2022	56.5%
2021	57.3%
2020	54.5%
2019	54.2%
2018	56.8%
2017	57.2%
2016	56.3%
2015	56.3%
2014	54.2%
2013	55.9%
2012	56.3%
2011	56.2%
2010	53.9%

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Release date

November 2023

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Region

Dominican Republic

Survey time period

2010 to 2022

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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