Self-employed, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate)
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Sample rows
| iso3 | year | value | country |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFE | 2025 | 74.7312790841906 | Africa Eastern and Southern |
| AFW | 2025 | 81.3510042503836 | Africa Western and Central |
| ARB | 2025 | 25.5414082633463 | Arab World |
| CSS | 2025 | 25.5336556372284 | Caribbean small states |
| CEB | 2025 | 15.6299124956244 | Central Europe and the Baltics |
| EAR | 2025 | 59.3523987143025 | Early-demographic dividend |
| EAS | 2025 | 39.0471928852075 | East Asia & Pacific |
| EAP | 2025 | 42.1160828304363 | East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) |
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✦ Suggested by OrionAISelf-employed workers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners or in cooperative, hold the type of jobs defined as a "self-employment jobs." i.e. jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced. Self-employed workers include sub-categories of employers, own-account workers and members of producers' cooperatives and contributing family workers.
Employers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners, hold the type of jobs defined as a "self-employment jobs" i.e. jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced), and, in this capacity, have engaged, on a continuous basis, one or more persons to work for them as employee(s).
Self-employed workers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners or in cooperative, hold the type of jobs defined as a "self-employment jobs." i.e. jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced. Self-employed workers include sub-categories of employers, own-account workers and members of producers' cooperatives and contributing family workers.
Contributing family workers are those workers who hold "self-employment jobs" as own-account workers in a market-oriented establishment operated by a related person living in the same household.
Vulnerable employment is contributing family workers and own-account workers as a percentage of total employment.
Employers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners, hold the type of jobs defined as a "self-employment jobs" i.e. jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced), and, in this capacity, have engaged, on a continuous basis, one or more persons to work for them as employee(s).
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