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👷 Self-employed, male

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.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
88.1% – 61.0%60.9% – 42.2%41.9% – 28.1%27.6% – 16.9%16.7% – 0.7%No data
1
🇹🇩Chad
88.1%
2
🇲🇬Madagascar
86.1%
3
🇳🇪Niger
84.6%
4
🇳🇬Nigeria
83.0%
5
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
83.0%
6
🇦🇫Afghanistan
82.8%
7
🇨🇫Central African Republic
82.7%
8
🇪🇹Ethiopia
82.6%
9
🇹🇿Tanzania
80.4%
10
🇨🇩DR Congo
79.8%
11
🇲🇿Mozambique
78.9%
12
🇧🇮Burundi
78.7%
13
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
77.2%
14
🇬🇳Guinea
76.3%
15
🇧🇯Benin
75.6%
16
🇺🇬Uganda
73.7%
17
🇮🇳India
73.3%
18
🇱🇦Laos
73.1%
19
🇲🇱Mali
73.0%
20
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
72.4%
21
🇳🇵Nepal
71.4%
22
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
70.7%
23
🇭🇹Haiti
70.2%
24
🇹🇬Togo
68.6%
25
🇱🇷Liberia
67.0%
26
🇦🇴Angola
66.5%
27
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
66.2%
28
🇲🇲Myanmar
65.7%
29
🇿🇲Zambia
64.5%
30
🇨🇬Congo
64.5%
31
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
63.4%
32
🇧🇴Bolivia
63.3%
33
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
63.3%
34
🇨🇲Cameroon
62.5%
35
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
62.4%
36
🇬🇭Ghana
61.8%
37
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
61.0%
38
🇧🇹Bhutan
60.9%
39
🇰🇵North Korea
60.5%
40
🇧🇩Bangladesh
58.8%
41
🇻🇺Vanuatu
58.1%
42
🇲🇩Moldova
57.8%
43
🇸🇳Senegal
57.5%
44
🇰🇪Kenya
56.7%
45
🇲🇼Malawi
55.6%
46
🇬🇲Gambia
55.6%
47
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
53.6%
48
🇵🇰Pakistan
52.3%
49
🇾🇪Yemen
51.9%
50
🇦🇱Albania
51.8%

Highlights

As of 2025, Chad ranks first with 88.1%, followed by Madagascar (86.1%) and Niger (84.6%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 88.1% (Chad) to 0.7% (Qatar), with a median of 32.6%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 9 from Africa and 1 from Asia.

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

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