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Zambia: Wage and salaried workers, total

28.27percent · 2025+12.7% 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 Zambia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202528.274
202427.937
202327.701
202226.099
202126.647
202024.676
201925.614
201825.833
201725.579
201625.357
201525.084
201423.013
201320.689
201218.14
201118.355
201018.547
200917.06
200815.619
200715.346
200615.064
200514.772
200415.02
200315.221
200215.46
200115.729
200016.069
199916.155
199816.301
199716.481
199616.566
199516.652
199416.834
199317.006
199217.135
199117.286

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Wage and salaried workers, total. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-wage-and-salaried-workers-total (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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