Workers in Informal Employment in El Salvador: A Statistical Profile, 2019-2021

This brief examines data on employment in El Salvador for 2019 to 2021 and analyzes the changes in employment brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the associated policy restrictions and recession in 2020 as well as recovery from the crisis in 2021. It also provides key data on seven groups of workers who are mainly informal. The groups – domestic workers, home-based workers, market traders, street vendors, informal construction workers, informal transport workers and waste pickers – together comprise almost 1 million workers.