Employment: There are more workers than in 2019, but most of them are informal.

Until the middle of this 2022, 17 million 770 thousand 900 workers were registered in Peru, up 4.6% from 2019, the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) said.

Although pre-pandemic levels have already been exceeded, the recovery Work it will not be total, since most jobs are informal.

INEI reports that last year only 23.9% of employees were informal, while 76.1% of those employed worked informally.

Although informality would fall by 0.6%, it is still clear that almost eight out of 10 Peruvian workers are informal.

Comparing the current figures with pre-pandemic ones, it is also noted that now there are 1 million 54 thousand more informal workers than in 2019.

informality it currently has a greater impact in the jungle at 81.9%, while in the Sierra it reaches 77.4% and on the coast it affects 66.6% of Peruvians.

Only in urban areas does informality affect women (74.1%) more than men (68.1%), and even in the last year it can be seen that Work women’s informal grew by 17.8% compared to what was recorded in the previous year.

Informality also has a greater impact on the young population under the age of 25, as out of the total number of working young people, 86.5% work in jobs without social benefits.

In addition, INEI also indicates that the vast majority of those who work in institutions 1 to 10 workers They have informal jobs.

Employment by industry

Of the 986,800 people who joined the Peruvian labor market in the second quarter of the year, the majority moved into the service and manufacturing sector.

Currently, 39.6% of the employed in the country work in Services23% in agriculture, 19.2% in trade, 9.7% in manufacturing, 6.7% in construction, 1.2% in mining, and 0.6% in fishing.

In other words, out of every 10 Peruvian employees, almost four work in the service sector, two are in agriculture, about two are in commercial activities, one is in manufacturing or construction, and the rest are in mining and fishing.

But it should be noted that INEI also claims that 90.3% of jobs in agriculture informalit is followed by fishing with 92.5%, construction with 85%, trade with 76.2%, manufacturing with 64.3%, services with 62.2% and finally mining with 45.0%.

Unemployment

The unemployment rate in the country was 4% until the middle of the year, which is still 0.4% higher than the pre-pandemic level.

If we compare the figures for April-June 2022 with the figures for the same period in 2019, we see that unemployment it has increased in almost all age groups and at all levels of education, with the exception of those under 25 years of age.