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Iraq: Wage and salaried workers, total

68.34percent · 2025+0.3% 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 Iraq from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202568.344
202468.434
202368.446
202268.489
202168.552
202068.616
201968.974
201870.23
201769.873
201668.792
201568.13
201468.319
201371.468
201270.14
201169.044
201068.047
200967.086
200866.161
200765.213
200665.059
200564.986
200465.025
200365.06
200265.006
200164.768
200064.144
199963.358
199862.614
199761.961
199661.743
199561.766
199461.895
199361.997
199262.073
199162.143

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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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