According to the latest report on Informal Employment and Social Security from the National Department of Statistics (Dane) during the mobile quarter that includes March and May 2023, the proportion of informally employed persons in the country was 56.7 percent, which meant a decrease of 1.4 percentage points compared to the same period of the previous year (58.1 percent).
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The report also highlights that of the 22,701,000 million workers who registered in the country during the reference period, about 9,838,000 are formal and 12,863,000 are informal.
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About 12.86 million workers are informal in Colombia
Carol Malaver / EL TIEMPO
On the other hand, for the 13 cities and metropolitan areasthis proportion was 41.9 percent, which represented a decrease of 2.3 percentage points compared to the March-May 2022 mobile quarter, when the figure was 44.1 percent.
These zones include Bogotá, Medellín and its metropolitan area (AM), Cali AM, Barranquilla AM, Bucaramanga AM, Manizales AM, Pereira AM, Cúcuta AM, Pasto, Ibagué, Montería, Cartagena and Villavicencio. Nearly 10.64 million workers are located in these cities, of which 6.19 are formal and 4.45 are informal.
For the case of the total of the 23 cities and metropolitan areas, the proportion of informality was located at 43.3 percent, which meant a decrease of 2.2 points percentages with respect to the moving quarter March – May 2022 (45.5 percent).
The cities with the highest and lowest informality
For the analysis period, of the 23 cities and metropolitan areas, the ones with the highest proportion of informality were: Sincelejo, with 69.1 percent; Riohacha, with 64.9 percent and Valledupar, with 64.2 percent.
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Proportion of the informally employed population according to cities
For his part, cities like Bogotá, with 32.8 percent; Manizales with 33.8 percent and Tunja with 37.6 percent They were the ones that registered the lowest proportion of informal workers.
Regarding the geographical domain of populated centers and dispersed rural areas, which refers to municipalities in rural areas, the indicator reached 84 percent, representing a drop of 0.9 percentage points compared to the same moving quarter of the previous year.
Informality in microenterprises reached 84.9%
The report also highlights that between March and May of this year, 84.9 percent of the employed population that worked in microenterprises was informal, which represents a decrease of 0.3 percentage points with respect to the same period of the previous year.
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Proportion of the informally employed population according to the size of the company where they work
In the case of small, medium, and large companies, the proportion of informal workers was: 20.9 percent, 6.8 percent, and 3.6 percent, respectively. All of them with slight reductions compared to the rolling period between March and May 2022.
JUAN DAVID CANO LOPERA
SCHOOL OF MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM EL TIEMPO
ECONOMY WRITING
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