Non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male was 0.6% in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
0.6%
Change on year
up 2.0%
World rank
48th
of 106 countries
All-time high
0.6%
in 2019
All-time low
0.5%
in 1992
Years of data
23
1992–2019

Non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male in Sri Lanka, 1992–2019

00.20.40.61992200520191992: 0.465 % of male employed population in working age1993: 0.471 % of male employed population in working age1994: 0.485 % of male employed population in working age1995: 0.489 % of male employed population in working age1996: 0.488 % of male employed population in working age1998: 0.471 % of male employed population in working age1999: 0.496 % of male employed population in working age2000: 0.489 % of male employed population in working age2001: 0.514 % of male employed population in working age2002: 0.498 % of male employed population in working age2003: 0.498 % of male employed population in working age2004: 0.493 % of male employed population in working age2006: 0.551 % of male employed population in working age2007: 0.507 % of male employed population in working age2008: 0.495 % of male employed population in working age2009: 0.54 % of male employed population in working age2011: 0.484 % of male employed population in working age2012: 0.489 % of male employed population in working age2013: 0.495 % of male employed population in working age2014: 0.514 % of male employed population in working age2015: 0.504 % of male employed population in working age2016: 0.565 % of male employed population in working age2019: 0.576 % of male employed population in working age

Source: World Bank. Measured in % of male employed population in working age.

Analysis

The most recent figure for non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male in Sri Lanka is 0.6%, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 23 years on record.

That represents a change of up 2.0% on the previous year and up 6.8% over ten years.

Over the whole period, non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male in Sri Lanka peaked at 0.6% in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.5%, in 1992.

That places Sri Lanka 48th out of 106 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 23 years of available data.

Non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male in Sri Lanka, year by year

Annual values for Non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male (% of male employed population in working age) in Sri Lanka, 1992 to 2019.
Year % of male employed population in working age Change
1992 0.5%
1993 0.5% +1.3%
1994 0.5% +3.0%
1995 0.5% +0.8%
1996 0.5% -0.3%
1998 0.5% -3.4%
1999 0.5% +5.3%
2000 0.5% -1.5%
2001 0.5% +5.1%
2002 0.5% -3.1%
2003 0.5% +0.1%
2004 0.5% -1.1%
2006 0.6% +11.8%
2007 0.5% -7.9%
2008 0.5% -2.4%
2009 0.5% +8.9%
2011 0.5% -10.3%
2012 0.5% +1.0%
2013 0.5% +1.3%
2014 0.5% +3.7%
2015 0.5% -1.9%
2016 0.6% +12.1%
2019 0.6% +2.0%

Sri Lanka compared with similar countries

  • Sri Lanka's 0.6% is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 0.4%, 1.3× the median. (33 countries reporting)

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 7
2000s 0.5% 0.5% 0.6% 9
2010s 0.5% 0.5% 0.6% 7

Countries ranked near Sri Lanka

  1. 45 Mexico 0.6% compare
  2. 46 Uruguay 0.6% compare
  3. 47 Brazil 0.6% compare
  4. 49 Philippines 0.6% compare
  5. 50 Armenia 0.6% compare
  6. 51 Norway 0.5% compare

See the full ranking of 106 places →

More reference data data for Sri Lanka

All data for Sri Lanka →

Frequently asked questions

What is non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male in Sri Lanka?
Non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male in Sri Lanka was 0.6% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male recorded in Sri Lanka?
The highest recorded value was 0.6% in 2019.
What is the lowest non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male recorded in Sri Lanka?
The lowest recorded value was 0.5% in 1992.
How does Sri Lanka rank for non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male?
Sri Lanka ranks 48th out of 106 countries with data for 2019.
Is non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
Over the last ten years it is up 6.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Sri Lanka data come from?
The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male (% of male employed population in working age). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 23 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male in Sri Lanka. Statizoid. Retrieved 15 September 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/non-agricultural-wage-employment-aged-15-64-male-percent-of-male-employed-population-in/sri-lanka/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/non-agricultural-wage-employment-aged-15-64-male-percent-of-male-employed-population-in/sri-lanka/">Non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male in Sri Lanka</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Non-agricultural wage employment, aged 15-64, male (% of male employed population in working age)
Unit
% of male employed population in working age
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
106 places, 1,503 data points, 1970–2021
Last refreshed