Argentina: informal employment rate 2023| Statista

In 2023, the percentage of informal employment in Argentina stood at 50 percent of the total employed population. The share of employment informality has decreased slightly in comparison to the previous year. Argentina is among the countries with the lowest share of informal employment in Latin America.

Vulnerability of the population

The main issues of informal employment are the lack of job security, social security, and the low quality of jobs. All factors heavily impact the vulnerability of the population under such conditions. During the last few years, Argentina increased the share of households under the poverty line, in fact, during the first half of 2024, the percentage exceeded 40 percent of homes, more than double the 2018th rate.

Labor force and unemployment

During the past four decades, the labor participation rate in Argentina has been significantly higher among the male population than their female counterparts. For males, around 70 percent of working age people were part of the workforce, while only around half of females did the same. Nevertheless, the unemployment rate has been decreasing considerably, reaching its lowest point in 2023 since at least 2004.

Informal employment as percentage of total employment in Argentina between 2010 and 2023

Characteristic	Share of total employment
2023	50.45%
2022	51.2%
2021	49.14%
2020	46.98%
2019	49.92%
2018	48.73%
2017	48.56%
2014	47.2%
2013	47.76%
2012	48.2%
2011	48.1%
2010	48.9%

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Release date

September 2024

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Region

Argentina

Survey time period

2010 to 2023

Supplementary notes

* No data available for 2015 or 2016.

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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