Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
Formal workers earned on average twice the hourly wage compared to informal workers in Latin America and the Caribbean (OECD, 2024).
0.61, 0.50 and 0.51 were the Gini coefficients in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador in the early 2000s (OECD, 2024).
25.1% of the population lived in households dependent exclusively on formal employment (OECD, 2024).
39.6% of youth employment was observed in LAC in 2022 (OECD, 2024).
42.5% of households in LAC were totally dependent on informal employment (OECD, 2024).
The gender gap in employment rates in LAC was 24.8 percentage points in 2022 (OECD, 2024).
38.3 and 11.7 points were the extremes of the gender gap in Honduras and Uruguay (OECD, 2024).
55.7% informality affected workers in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022 (OECD, 2024).
59.4% informality was recorded in the region in 2010 (OECD, 2024).
64.9% of the population of LAC lived in households with at least one informal income before 2022 (OECD, 2024).
