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Lesotho: Wage and salaried workers, total

61.48percent · 2025+1.2% 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 Lesotho from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202561.482
202461.354
202361.256
202261.307
202161.356
202060.814
201960.945
201861.019
201761.016
201660.972
201560.777
201460.62
201360.437
201260.222
201159.914
201059.613
200959.364
200859.21
200758.819
200658.445
200558.051
200457.696
200357.387
200257.085
200156.832
200056.483
199956.186
199855.92
199755.608
199655.296
199554.886
199454.53
199354.101
199253.689
199153.189

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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 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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