Vulnerable Employment / Japan
Japan Vulnerable Employment
Japan vulnerable employment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 7.49%.
COUNTRY: Japan
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-14 05:10:18
GM ECONOMY RATING
Japan · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
A
81 / 100
Strong stability
Fiscal stability
n/a
Macroeconomic stability
14.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
15.0 / 15
Structural stability
15.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 76% of weighted inputs available.
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Japan · vulnerable employment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
7.49%
Previous
7.63%
Range avg.
8.07%
Rank
88
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IndicatorVulnerable Employment
7.49%2025 · Rank 88
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Japan recorded 7.49% for Vulnerable Employment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.15 percentage points, from 7.63% to 7.49%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (8.07%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 7.49% in 2025 and the high was 8.65% in 2021.
Comparison
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