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Report year 2008Data year 2008
Self-employed (% of total employment)Neither end is better — this is a shape, not a scorePublished by International Labour Organization (ILO)
35 reference years (1991–2025), covering 182 to 187 countries, produced by the ILO and pulled through the World Bank’s indicator API (SL.EMP.SELF.ZS). Employers, own-account workers, members of producers’ cooperatives and contributing family workers, as a share of all employment. ⚠ NEITHER END IS BETTER, and the two ends of this table mean opposite things: high self-employment is a start-up culture in a rich country and an absence of formal jobs in a poor one. Read beside vulnerable employment, which separates the two. ⚠ MODELLED, not measured. ⚠ The ILO ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score and labelled as ours.
Self-Employment Rate 2008 — International Labour Organization (ILO)
Cite as: International Labour Organization. ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST). Geneva: ILOSTAT.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
The share of working people who work for themselves rather than for an employer — employers, own-account workers, members of producers' cooperatives and contributing family workers — an ILO modelled estimate served through the World Bank's indicator API (SL.EMP.SELF.ZS). ⚠ Neither end is better, and the two ends of this table mean opposite things: high self-employment is a start-up culture in a rich country and an absence of formal jobs in a poor one. Read it beside vulnerable employment, which separates the two. The ILO does not rank countries on it, so no rank is stored and none is derived.
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