Employed workers with a work contract, aged 15-64, above primary education (% of employed population with high education in working age) by country

Countries reporting
22
Highest
1.0%
Egypt
Lowest
0.1%
South Korea
Median
0.7%
Years covered
41
1981–2021
Data points
267

What the numbers show

Employed workers with a work contract, aged 15-64, above primary education (% of employed population with high education in working age) is currently reported for 22 countries. The highest value is 1.0% in Egypt; the lowest is 0.1% in South Korea.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.7%, and the mean is 0.7%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 8.

Over the past decade 11 countries rose and 9 fell. The largest increase was in Bolivia (up 106.7%), and the largest decrease in Brazil (down 22.4%).

Employed workers with a work contract, aged 15-64, above primary educa: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Egypt 1.0% 2008 up 46.4% rising
1 Moldova 1.0% 2019 up 9.8% falling
3 South Africa 0.9% 2020 up 1.1% rising
4 Chile 0.9% 2017 up 5.4% flat
5 Ecuador 0.9% 2017 down 0.7% rising
6 Albania 0.8% 2019 falling
7 Mexico 0.7% 2020 down 1.9% flat
8 Honduras 0.7% 2017 down 3.9% flat
9 Rwanda 0.7% 2021 rising
10 Dominican Republic 0.7% 2013 up 40.9% rising
11 Kyrgyzstan 0.7% 2020 up 66.8% falling
12 El Salvador 0.6% 2017 up 4.1% rising
13 Panama 0.6% 2018 up 0.4% rising
14 Pakistan 0.6% 2020 down 22.3% falling
15 Peru 0.6% 2016 up 20.7% rising
16 Brazil 0.6% 2020 down 22.4% falling
17 Bolivia 0.6% 2017 up 106.7% falling
18 Ghana 0.5% 2016 down 6.3% falling
19 Colombia 0.5% 2021 down 3.2% falling
20 Guatemala 0.5% 2011 down 12.0% falling
21 Paraguay 0.4% 2017 up 14.0% rising
22 South Korea 0.1% 2014 down 16.3% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Employed workers with a work contract, aged 15-64, above primary education (% of employed population with high education in working age)
Unit
% of employed population with high education in working age
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
23 places, 267 data points, 1981–2021
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