In 2022, Chile was the country with the highest share of employees in the total employed population in Latin America and the Caribbean. As of that time, almost 75 percent of workers had “paid employment jobs”, or jobs where the incumbents held employment contracts that entitle them to basic remuneration. However, the share of employeres in the country that year amounted to only 3.2 percent.
Distribution of total employed population in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022, by status and country
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 probably due to rounding.
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ILO. (November 1, 2023). Distribution of total employed population in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022, by status and country [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 25, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/862286/distribution-employed-population-status-latin-america-country/
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