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Timor-Leste: Wage and salaried workers, total

25.14percent · 2025+1.9% 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 Timor-Leste from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202525.141
202424.948
202324.808
202225.323
202125.223
202024.804
201925.446
201824.976
201724.962
201624.909
201524.662
201424.375
201324.108
201223.741
201123.368
201022.938
200922.573
200822.266
200722.015
200621.91
200521.923
200421.866
200321.851
200221.818
200121.626
200021.197
199920.791
199820.525
199720.431
199620.134
199519.781
199419.436
199319.085
199218.682
199118.331

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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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