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Self-Employment Rate, 1994

1994, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Self-Employment Rate, 1994 covers 187 countries. Afghanistan is highest, at 95.6240; Qatar is lowest, at 1.8513. The middle country reads 40.0375. Against 1993, 187 values changed (71 up, 116 down), the same countries are covered.

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Self-Employment Rate · Data for 1994

HighestAfghanistan

95.6240

LowestQatar

1.8513

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Self-Employment Rate, 1994, as published. ILO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 187 countries · select a heading to sort

Self-Employment Rate, 1994: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia95.6240
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa95.0532
3NigeriaNGAWestern Africa95.0080
4GuineaGINWestern Africa94.4491
5MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa94.0082
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa92.4637
7TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa92.2191
8LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia90.9868
9EthiopiaETHEastern Africa90.5483
10AngolaAGOMiddle Africa89.5173
11BeninBENWestern Africa86.6410
12BurundiBDIEastern Africa86.5435
13GhanaGHAWestern Africa86.5220
14IndiaINDSouthern Asia86.2891
15MaliMLIWestern Africa86.0379
16NigerNERWestern Africa86.0116
17NepalNPLSouthern Asia85.9972
18Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa85.7522
19Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa85.2240
20CameroonCMRMiddle Africa84.9737
21South SudanSSDEastern Africa84.6118
22TogoTGOWestern Africa83.8948
23UgandaUGAEastern Africa83.5437
24ZambiaZMBEastern Africa83.1662
25MadagascarMDGEastern Africa82.6073

02In 1994

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan95.6240
  2. 2Chad95.0532
  3. 3Nigeria95.0080
  4. 4Guinea94.4491
  5. 5Mozambique94.0082

Lowest

  1. 187Qatar1.8513
  2. 186United Arab Emirates3.4581
  3. 185Kuwait4.5993
  4. 184Bahrain4.8773
  5. 183Russia5.3871

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 40.0375. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031993 → 1994

Since 1993

What changed between 1993 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 71 · 116rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1994.

  • The position is ours

    ILO publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 187 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (1994). Self-Employment Rate, 1994 [data set], describing 1994. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/self-employment/1994

0635 held

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07Questions

Self-Employment Rate, 1994: questions and answers

Which country has the highest self-employment in Self-Employment Rate, 1994?

Afghanistan, at 95.6240, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Self-Employment Rate, 1994 describe?

1994.

How many countries does Self-Employment Rate, 1994 cover?

187.

Where can I download Self-Employment Rate, 1994?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Self-Employment Rate, 1994 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Self-Employment Rate, 2025.

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