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🧑‍🔧 Largest Self-Employed Workforces

Self-employed workers as a share of total employment; ILO modeled estimate.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
91.6% – 67.0%66.3% – 41.3%41.2% – 26.1%25.9% – 13.7%13.4% – 0.8%No data
1
🇹🇩Chad
91.6%
2
🇳🇪Niger
89.5%
3
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
88.8%
4
🇲🇬Madagascar
88.3%
5
🇳🇬Nigeria
86.2%
6
🇨🇫Central African Republic
85.4%
7
🇹🇿Tanzania
85.3%
8
🇲🇿Mozambique
85.3%
9
🇨🇩DR Congo
85.1%
10
🇧🇮Burundi
84.9%
11
🇪🇹Ethiopia
84.3%
12
🇦🇫Afghanistan
83.4%
13
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
82.6%
14
🇬🇳Guinea
81.9%
15
🇺🇬Uganda
80.5%
16
🇧🇯Benin
79.8%
17
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
78.7%
18
🇳🇵Nepal
78.6%
19
🇱🇷Liberia
78.3%
20
🇱🇦Laos
77.1%
21
🇭🇹Haiti
76.8%
22
🇨🇬Congo
76.8%
23
🇹🇬Togo
76.6%
24
🇲🇱Mali
76.4%
25
🇦🇴Angola
75.9%
26
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
75.5%
27
🇮🇳India
74.9%
28
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
74.9%
29
🇿🇲Zambia
71.7%
30
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
71.0%
31
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
70.8%
32
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
69.9%
33
🇧🇹Bhutan
69.5%
34
🇨🇲Cameroon
69.3%
35
🇬🇲Gambia
68.6%
36
🇬🇭Ghana
67.5%
37
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
67.0%
38
🇧🇴Bolivia
66.3%
39
🇲🇲Myanmar
65.5%
40
🇰🇪Kenya
64.8%
41
🇸🇳Senegal
64.3%
42
🇰🇵North Korea
62.1%
43
🇲🇼Malawi
61.3%
44
🇧🇩Bangladesh
61.0%
45
🇻🇺Vanuatu
60.6%
46
🇲🇩Moldova
58.8%
47
🇰🇲Comoros
57.9%
48
🇲🇷Mauritania
57.4%
49
🇵🇰Pakistan
57.0%
50
🇰🇭Cambodia
55.5%

Highlights

As of 2025, Chad ranks first with 91.6%, followed by Niger (89.5%) and Sierra Leone (88.8%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 91.6% (Chad) to 0.8% (Qatar), with a median of 32.0%.

All of the top 10 are in Africa.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Self-employed, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Self-employed, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026