Self-Employment Rate, 2024

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Self-Employment Rate, 2024: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).

Positionderived	Country	Self-employed (% of total employment)
1	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	91.51424
2	NigerNERWestern Africa	89.73656
3	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	89.04000
4	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	88.51891
5	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	86.41729
6	TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	85.54891
7	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	85.48110
8	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	85.46392
9	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	85.34200
10	BurundiBDIEastern Africa	84.91547
11	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	84.62915
12	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	83.35863
13	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	82.83755
14	GuineaGINWestern Africa	82.24512
15	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	80.70618
16	BeninBENWestern Africa	80.22670
17	Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia	78.84722
18	NepalNPLSouthern Asia	78.84171
19	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	78.61910
20	LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	77.39568
21	TogoTGOWestern Africa	77.04962
22	Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa	76.89090
23	MaliMLIWestern Africa	76.88969
24	HaitiHTICaribbean	76.78977
25	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	75.85785

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 31.89260. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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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.

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