Data · Prices, labour & income
Wage and salaried workers, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate): Vietnam, 1991–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 46.7 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SL.EMP.WORK.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Wage and salaried workers (employees) are those workers who hold the type of jobs defined as "paid employment jobs," where the incumbents hold explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts that give them a basic remuneration that is not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1991 to 2025 (35 years of data). It moved from 18.7 to 46.7 %, a change of 149.3%. The highest value was 46.7 in 2025 and the lowest 18.7 in 1991. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (%) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 46.7 |
| 2024 | 46.2 |
| 2023 | 45.7 |
| 2022 | 45.3 |
| 2021 | 44.8 |
| 2020 | 44.1 |
| 2019 | 44.3 |
| 2018 | 43.9 |
| 2017 | 42.8 |
| 2016 | 41.2 |
| 2015 | 39.3 |
| 2014 | 35.7 |
| 2013 | 34.9 |
| 2012 | 34.8 |
| 2011 | 34.7 |
| 2010 | 33.8 |
| 2009 | 33.6 |
| 2008 | 32.7 |
| 2007 | 31.8 |
| 2006 | 31.3 |
| 2005 | 30.8 |
| 2004 | 30.3 |
| 2003 | 26.7 |
| 2002 | 25.2 |
| 2001 | 25.6 |
| 2000 | 23.2 |
| 1999 | 22.8 |
| 1998 | 25.8 |
| 1997 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 21.3 |
| 1995 | 20.8 |
| 1994 | 20.4 |
| 1993 | 19.7 |
| 1992 | 19.1 |
| 1991 | 18.7 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 46.7 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 49.3 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 46.7 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 74.6 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 63.9 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 87.3 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 44.5 |
| Laos | 2025 | 22.9 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 34.5 |
| China | 2025 | 62.3 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Wage and salaried workers, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.EMP.WORK.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name sl_emp_work_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.