Labour Market and Workers’ Rights Statistics in Palestine | PLRO
We monitor Palestinian working life through data and indicators on the labour market, workers’ rights and labour violations, turning them into knowledge that helps understand challenges and support rights protection and decent work.
Employment by economic activity
The chart shows the distribution of employed people in the West Bank by economic activity in Q4 2025. Each bar is a share of total employment, rather than a percentage change between 2023 and 2025.
These shares describe the composition of employment at one reference period. They do not, by themselves, measure growth or decline over time.
Unemployment trends in the West Bank, 2023–2025
The data show a clear shift in the labour market since late 2023, with a sharp rise in unemployment during 2024.
Despite a gradual decline during 2025, unemployment remained high compared with levels before the increase.
Palestinian working life in figures
Informal employment rate
Workers receiving their labour entitlements
Employees earning below the minimum wage
Unemployed in the West Bank
Workers without an employment contract
Women receiving paid maternity leave
What does the Observatory monitor?
- Violations against women and men in the workplace
- Failure to comply with labour law
- Conditions of workers in settlements
- Violence and harassment in the workplace
Unavailable
No approved aggregate source is available for this indicator. This does not mean zero.
Complaints under follow-up
290
Registered complaints in the public aggregate source; reference period unspecified. Last successful retrieval: 2026-10-31 20:49 EET
Total complaints
Unavailable
No approved aggregate source is available for this indicator. This does not mean zero.
Closed cases
Unavailable
No approved aggregate source is available for this indicator. This does not mean zero.
Resolved complaints
Indicator definitions and sources
- Unemployment: 27.5% of labour-force participants aged 15 and above; approximately 280 thousand unemployed people.
- Labour rights: approximately 40% of private-sector wage employees receive retirement/end-of-service benefits and paid annual and sick leave.
- Below minimum wage: 14.6% of private-sector wage employees earn less than NIS 1,880 per month.
- Informal employment: approximately 60% of employed people; includes informal-sector work and wage employees without the rights specified by the source.
- No contract: approximately 134 thousand private-sector wage employees.
- Paid maternity leave: approximately 47% of female private-sector wage employees; the detailed release reports 47.2%.
Area: West Bank. Reference period: Q4 2025. Source: Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. Sources checked: 20 October 2026; this is not the data reference date.
PCBS — Q4 2025 Labour Force Survey · PCBS — Labour rights and employment indicators