Tax Lab · Compliance, risk & behaviour
Uganda Informal Sector Tax Prioritisation
Uganda's real, live national employment-composition data from the World Bank, the backdrop any real district-level formalisation ranking would sit inside.
The employment-composition series below are live. No district-level ranking is reproduced on this page. Fetched 2026-11-07 04:26 UTC; refreshed at most every six hours.
What this shows, and what it doesn't
The Tax Lab catalogue describes this prototype as a district-by-district formalisation-priority ranking, combining UBOS District Survey, KCCA licensing and UGATsDB data across all 146 Ugandan districts. The catalogue entry itself already says the bundled district file is synthetic but plausible, not an official extract, and district centroids used for mapping are approximate placeholders, so this page doesn't rebuild a fake district ranking to stand in for it. What it shows instead is real and live: Uganda's national employment composition, self-employment, vulnerable employment and wage work, the World Bank's own ILO-modelled estimates, which is the real backdrop any genuine district-level prioritisation exercise would need to sit inside.
The data
Live, World Bank (ILO-modelled estimates)
Employment composition, latest year
Hover a slice. Wage/salaried work versus self-employment, as shares of total employment, 2025. Source: World Bank (ILO-modelled estimates), live.
Live, World Bank (ILO-modelled estimates)
How the mix has moved
Hover a line or label. Real shares of total employment, 2010 to 2025. Vulnerable employment (self-employed plus unpaid family workers) is the World Bank's own standard proxy for informal work where a direct informality measure isn't published. Source: World Bank, live.
Reading this
"Vulnerable employment" (self-employed workers plus unpaid family workers) is the World Bank's standard proxy for informal work in countries, like Uganda, where a direct administrative informality measure isn't published. A high and rising vulnerable-employment share is consistent with the large informal tax base the catalogue entry's district ranking is built to prioritise, but it is a national average: it says nothing about which districts, sectors or enterprise types to start with, which is exactly the question a real district-level exercise would need real district data to answer.
Limitations
- These are national aggregates; the catalogue entry's own method is district-level, and no live source in this page's API kit publishes Uganda district microdata.
- "Vulnerable employment" and "self-employed" overlap by definition (vulnerable employment includes most self-employed workers); they are shown together to be transparent about that overlap, not as two independent measures.
- ILO-modelled estimates are themselves modelled, not a direct census count; the World Bank revises them as new labour-force survey rounds become available.
Source, called live: World Bank, ILO-modelled employment estimates. Indicators: SL.EMP.SELF.ZS (self-employed), SL.EMP.VULN.ZS (vulnerable employment), SL.EMP.WORK.ZS (wage and salaried workers), each as a share of total employment.