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👷 Employers, male

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.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
28.2% – 6.7%6.6% – 4.9%4.9% – 3.6%3.6% – 2.1%2.0% – 0.2%No data
1
🇳🇬Nigeria
28.2%
2
🇩🇯Djibouti
23.2%
3
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
16.8%
4
🇦🇴Angola
15.0%
5
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
14.2%
6
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
13.1%
7
🇭🇳Honduras
11.8%
8
🇬🇷Greece
9.7%
9
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
9.4%
10
🇦🇺Australia
9.2%
11
🇨🇭Switzerland
9.0%
12
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
8.9%
13
🇮🇹Italy
8.7%
14
🇳🇪Niger
8.7%
15
🇹🇳Tunisia
8.5%
16
🇬🇲Gambia
8.4%
17
🇭🇷Croatia
8.4%
18
🇨🇫Central African Republic
8.4%
19
🇬🇭Ghana
8.1%
20
🇳🇦Namibia
8.0%
21
🇰🇵North Korea
8.0%
22
🇺🇬Uganda
7.9%
23
🇹🇴Tonga
7.9%
24
🇪🇪Estonia
7.6%
25
🇿🇦South Africa
7.6%
26
🇳🇿New Zealand
7.4%
27
🇾🇪Yemen
7.3%
28
🇬🇾Guyana
7.2%
29
🇲🇽Mexico
7.1%
30
🇨🇺Cuba
7.1%
31
🇳🇮Nicaragua
7.1%
32
🇱🇻Latvia
7.1%
33
🇮🇸Iceland
6.9%
34
🇧🇿Belize
6.9%
35
🇵🇾Paraguay
6.8%
36
🇱🇸Lesotho
6.8%
37
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
6.7%
38
🇵🇹Portugal
6.6%
39
🇫🇷France
6.5%
40
🇰🇷South Korea
6.4%
41
🇧🇬Bulgaria
6.4%
42
🇸🇴Somalia
6.2%
43
🇹🇷Türkiye
6.1%
44
🇦🇹Austria
6.0%
45
🇸🇻El Salvador
6.0%
46
🇪🇷Eritrea
5.9%
47
🇦🇱Albania
5.8%
48
🇮🇱Israel
5.8%
49
🇪🇸Spain
5.7%
50
🇲🇰North Macedonia
5.7%

Highlights

As of 2025, Nigeria ranks first with 28.2%, followed by Djibouti (23.2%) and Timor-Leste (16.8%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 28.2% (Nigeria) to 0.2% (Ethiopia), with a median of 4.2%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Africa, 3 from Asia, 1 from the Americas, 1 from Europe and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employers, male (% of male employment) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

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