Informal employment as a share of total employment in Angola, 2025.
Informal employment accounted for approximately 78.6% of jobs in Angola in 2025. Formal employment represented the remaining 21.4%. The two shares form a complete employment composition. Informal jobs were about 3.67 times as numerous as formal jobs.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Informal employment | 78.6% | 2025 |
| 2 | Formal employment | 21.4% | 2025 |
Source 1: Angola Economic Outlook 2025
Publisher: African Development Bank
Dataset/table: Macroeconomic and social indicators
Units: percent; index
Date checked: 2026-07-19
Evidence: Supports the 2025 inflation, GDP, per-capita growth, oil contraction, informality, poverty and inequality estimates.
Source 2: Annual Employment Survey Yearbook, 2025
Publisher: INE Angola
Dataset/table: Annual employment survey 2025
Units: persons; percent
Date checked: 2026-07-19
Evidence: Supports the IEA survey population estimate of 36,402,073 and the official description that about four-fifths of employment was informal in 2025.
Informal employment is a job-characteristic measure, not unemployment. The 78.6% value is an institutional estimate based on Angolan labour data.
Uses the AfDB's 78.6% estimate and derives the formal share as the residual. The official INE yearbook's description of about four-fifths provides directional confirmation.
The two employment components use one 2025 estimate and sum to 100%. INE's official narrative supports the same approximate informal-employment share.
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