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Self-Employment Rate, 1996

1996, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Self-Employment Rate, 1996 covers 187 countries. Afghanistan is highest, at 95.542; Qatar is lowest, at 1.675. The middle country reads 39.736. Against 1995, 187 values changed (57 up, 130 down), the same countries are covered.

Self-Employment Rate · Data for 1996

HighestAfghanistan

95.542

LowestQatar

1.675

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, 1996, 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, 1996: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia95.542
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa95.163
3NigeriaNGAWestern Africa94.660
4GuineaGINWestern Africa94.215
5MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa93.702
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa92.806
7TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa92.086
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa90.412
9LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia90.136
10AngolaAGOMiddle Africa89.472
11BurundiBDIEastern Africa87.170
12BeninBENWestern Africa86.437
13NigerNERWestern Africa86.175
14MaliMLIWestern Africa85.764
15IndiaINDSouthern Asia85.725
16GhanaGHAWestern Africa85.584
17NepalNPLSouthern Asia85.545
18Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa85.455
19Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa85.377
20CameroonCMRMiddle Africa84.897
21LiberiaLBRWestern Africa84.606
22South SudanSSDEastern Africa84.561
23TogoTGOWestern Africa83.678
24ZambiaZMBEastern Africa83.434
25DR CongoCODMiddle Africa83.064

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan95.542
  2. 2Chad95.163
  3. 3Nigeria94.660
  4. 4Guinea94.215
  5. 5Mozambique93.702

Lowest

  1. 187Qatar1.675
  2. 186United Arab Emirates3.388
  3. 185Kuwait3.731
  4. 184Bahrain4.526
  5. 183Russia6.084

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 39.736. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 57 · 130rose · 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 1996.

  • 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) (1996). Self-Employment Rate, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/self-employment/1996

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07Questions

Self-Employment Rate, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest self-employment in Self-Employment Rate, 1996?

Afghanistan, at 95.542, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Self-Employment Rate, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Self-Employment Rate, 1996 cover?

187.

Where can I download Self-Employment Rate, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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