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Benin: Wage and salaried workers, total

20.17percent · 2025+25.0% since 2015

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. Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Benin from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202520.165
202419.773
202319.47
202219.174
202118.106
202016.906
201917.279
201816.941
201716.628
201616.357
201516.138
201415.954
201315.741
201215.554
201115.441
201015.345
200915.245
200815.131
200715.006
200614.892
200514.805
200414.7
200314.568
200214.419
200114.259
200014.098
199913.941
199813.813
199713.699
199613.563
199513.444
199413.359
199313.114
199213.024
199112.904

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Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Wage and salaried workers, total. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-wage-and-salaried-workers-total (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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