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Self-Employment Rate, 2007

2007, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Self-Employment Rate, 2007 covers 187 countries. Afghanistan is highest, at 92.8462; Qatar is lowest, at 1.1016. The middle country reads 36.6784. Against 2006, 187 values changed (35 up, 152 down), the same countries are covered.

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Self-Employment Rate · Data for 2007

HighestAfghanistan

92.8462

LowestQatar

1.1016

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, 2007, 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, 2007: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia92.8462
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa91.9180
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa91.3825
4NigeriaNGAWestern Africa90.6699
5EthiopiaETHEastern Africa90.6033
6GuineaGINWestern Africa90.3299
7MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa89.4873
8TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa89.4742
9BurundiBDIEastern Africa87.8396
10MadagascarMDGEastern Africa86.6366
11NigerNERWestern Africa86.2884
12AngolaAGOMiddle Africa85.2554
13Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa85.2490
14BeninBENWestern Africa84.9942
15ZambiaZMBEastern Africa84.6543
16LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia84.5923
17IndiaINDSouthern Asia83.8456
18DR CongoCODMiddle Africa83.5628
19NepalNPLSouthern Asia83.3131
20MaliMLIWestern Africa83.1398
21TogoTGOWestern Africa82.9104
22Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa82.8175
23South SudanSSDEastern Africa82.4673
24CameroonCMRMiddle Africa81.6811
25Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia81.5028

02In 2007

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan92.8462
  2. 2Chad91.9180
  3. 3Sierra Leone91.3825
  4. 4Nigeria90.6699
  5. 5Ethiopia90.6033

Lowest

  1. 187Qatar1.1016
  2. 186Kuwait1.8306
  3. 185Bahrain3.8928
  4. 184United Arab Emirates4.3142
  5. 183Saudi Arabia5.2130

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 36.6784. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032006 → 2007

Since 2006

What changed between 2006 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 35 · 152rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Egypt29.8651 → 33.1428+3.2777
  • Thailand56.7288 → 59.5854+2.8567
  • Moldova48.3235 → 50.4256+2.1021
  • Syria44.4983 → 46.2596+1.7613
  • Fiji39.7921 → 41.2411+1.4490

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 2007.

  • 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) (2007). Self-Employment Rate, 2007 [data set], describing 2007. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/self-employment/2007

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07Questions

Self-Employment Rate, 2007: questions and answers

Which country has the highest self-employment in Self-Employment Rate, 2007?

Afghanistan, at 92.8462, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Self-Employment Rate, 2007 describe?

2007.

How many countries does Self-Employment Rate, 2007 cover?

187.

Where can I download Self-Employment Rate, 2007?

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, 2007 the newest?

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

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