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Figure 2.10Informal employment, as a share of total employment, by type and sex, 2004–2010Up to 95 per cent of women’s employment is informal in Developing RegionsCEECAMenWomen18 6 515 4 27971Men6 151820 41LACWomen1924 25 41Men9 322117 21ESAWomen5 351523 22Men4 521116 17SSAWomen2577 23 11SAMenWomen15 322122 1021 50 1014 50 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100Per centMenWomenAgricultural informal wage employmentAgricultural informal self-employmentNon-agricultural informal wage employmentNon-agricultural informal self employmentFormal employmentSource: UN Women calculations using data in Tables 2 and 4 in Vanek et al. 2014.Note: Estimates for East and South-East Asia (ESA) exclude China. The Middle East and North Africa is excluded due to lack of data for these different categories. Given that agriculturalemployment almost always lacks social protection, these calculations assume that all agricultural employment in developing countries is informal.103