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STORY: ILO / INFORMAL ECONOMY
TRT: 01:00
SOURCE: ILO
LANGUAGE: NATS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
DATELINE: FILE
FILE – ILO - DECEMBER 2017, MADAGASCAR
1. Wide shot, female market vendor
FILE – ILO – 2016, KYRGYZSTAN
2. Various shots, older woman sells wares on street pavement
FILE – ILO - OCTOBER 2016, BEKKA VALLEY, LEBANON
3. Med shot, child picking potatoes
4. Wide shot, children carrying heavy potato bags
FILE – ILO – 2017, KATHMANDU, NEPAL
5. Various shots, workers making felt items
FILE – ILO – 2014, HAITI
6. Various shots, workers in garment factory
FILE – ILO – 11 AUG 2016, KATANGA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
7. Various shots, young mechanics at work
FILE – ILO - DECEMBER 2017, OUTSKIRTS OF ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR
8. Pan left, people at work, break rocks
9. Med shot, woman breaking rocks with child in her arms
Two billion people – more than 60 percent of the world’s employed population – make their living in the informal economy, the ILO said in a report released today (30 Apr), stressing that a transition to the formal economy is a condition to realize decent work for all.
Women and men in the informal economy: A statistical picture (Third edition) provides comparable estimates on the size of the informal economy and a statistical profile of informality using criteria from more than 100 countries.
When excluding agriculture, half of the employed population are in informal employment, according to the report.
In Africa, 85.8 percent of employment is informal. The proportion is 68.2 per cent in Asia and the Pacific, 68.6 per cent in the Arab States, 40.0 per cent in the Americas and 25.1 per cent in Europe and Central Asia.
The report shows that 93 percent of the world’s informal employment is in emerging and developing countries.
Informal employment is a greater source of employment for men (63.0 percent) than for women (58.1 percent). Out of the two billion workers in informal employment worldwide, just over 740 million are women. Women are more exposed to informal employment in most low- and lower-middle income countries and are more often found in the most vulnerable situations.
The level of education is a key factor affecting the level of informality. Globally, when the level of education increases, the level of informality decreases, the report says. People who have completed secondary and tertiary education are less likely to be in informal employment compared to workers who have either no education or completed primary education.
People living in rural areas are almost twice as likely to be in informal employment as those in urban areas. Agriculture is the sector with the highest level of informal employment – estimated at more than 90 percent.
