Rank	Country	Value
1	Chad	91.51 %
2	Niger	89.74 %
3	Sierra Leone	89.04 %
4	Madagascar	88.52 %
5	Nigeria	86.42 %
6	Tanzania, United Republic of	85.55 %
7	Central African Republic	85.48 %
8	Mozambique	85.46 %
9	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	85.34 %
10	Burundi	84.92 %
11	Ethiopia	84.63 %
12	Afghanistan	83.36 %
13	Burkina Faso	82.84 %
14	Guinea	82.25 %
15	Uganda	80.71 %
16	Benin	80.23 %
17	Papua New Guinea	78.85 %
18	Nepal	78.84 %
19	Liberia	78.62 %
20	Lao People's Democratic Republic	77.40 %
21	Togo	77.05 %
22	Congo	76.89 %
23	Mali	76.89 %
24	Haiti	76.79 %
25	Angola	75.86 %
26	Guinea-Bissau	75.68 %
27	India	75.39 %
28	Timor-Leste	75.05 %
29	Zambia	72.06 %
30	Côte d'Ivoire	71.32 %
31	Zimbabwe	70.90 %
32	Solomon Islands	70.09 %
33	Bhutan	69.90 %
34	Cameroon	69.57 %
35	Gambia	68.98 %
36	Ghana	67.85 %
37	Azerbaijan	67.18 %
38	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	66.51 %
39	Myanmar	65.46 %
40	Kenya	64.95 %
41	Senegal	64.66 %
42	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	62.13 %
43	Bangladesh	61.43 %
44	Malawi	61.32 %
45	Vanuatu	60.62 %
46	Moldova, Republic of	58.72 %
47	Comoros	58.02 %
48	Mauritania	57.72 %
49	Pakistan	57.22 %
50	Cambodia	55.79 %
51	Viet Nam	53.81 %
52	Indonesia	53.68 %
53	Yemen	52.58 %
54	Eritrea	52.57 %
55	Ecuador	52.35 %
56	Somalia	52.25 %
57	Peru	51.71 %
58	Djibouti	51.27 %
59	Thailand	50.83 %
60	Albania	50.61 %
61	Georgia	46.57 %
62	Colombia	45.75 %
63	Uzbekistan	45.67 %
64	Samoa	44.75 %
65	Nicaragua	44.51 %
66	Honduras	44.37 %
67	Sao Tome and Principe	44.09 %
68	Iran, Islamic Republic of	43.17 %
69	Syrian Arab Republic	42.47 %
70	Dominican Republic	42.23 %
71	Sri Lanka	42.15 %
72	Tonga	42.07 %
73	Paraguay	41.59 %
74	Mongolia	41.56 %
75	Rwanda	40.93 %
76	Panama	40.62 %
77	Morocco	40.41 %
78	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	40.35 %
79	Guatemala	39.29 %
80	Cabo Verde	38.88 %
81	Lesotho	38.65 %
82	China	38.05 %
83	Namibia	36.79 %
84	Philippines	36.46 %
85	El Salvador	36.02 %
86	Jamaica	35.85 %
87	Belize	35.33 %
88	Fiji	34.38 %
89	Armenia	34.31 %
90	Gabon	32.45 %
91	Turkmenistan	32.14 %
92	Guyana	31.65 %
93	Iraq	31.57 %
94	Tajikistan	31.55 %
95	Kyrgyzstan	31.03 %
96	Mexico	30.83 %
97	Greece	30.70 %
98	Brazil	30.51 %
99	Eswatini	30.45 %
100	Algeria	30.38 %
101	Türkiye	28.84 %
102	Botswana	28.15 %
103	Uruguay	28.10 %
104	Equatorial Guinea	27.26 %
105	Serbia	27.22 %
106	Egypt	27.12 %
107	Saint Lucia	26.86 %
108	Costa Rica	26.81 %
109	Libya	26.27 %
110	Kazakhstan	26.21 %
111	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	25.88 %
112	Argentina	25.72 %
113	Trinidad and Tobago	25.69 %
114	Malaysia	25.49 %
115	Tunisia	25.05 %
116	Cuba	24.92 %
117	Chile	24.04 %
118	Korea, Republic of	22.86 %
119	Suriname	22.77 %
120	Bosnia and Herzegovina	22.38 %
121	Italy	21.25 %
122	Maldives	20.34 %
123	Barbados	19.80 %
124	Poland	19.01 %
125	New Zealand	18.60 %
126	French Polynesia	18.38 %
127	Mauritius	18.18 %
128	Montenegro	17.78 %
129	South Africa	17.29 %
130	Bahamas	17.06 %
131	New Caledonia	16.98 %
132	Switzerland	16.85 %
133	Netherlands	16.83 %
134	North Macedonia	16.82 %
135	Australia	16.22 %
136	Czechia	15.85 %
137	Guam	15.65 %
138	Slovakia	14.95 %
139	Spain	14.70 %
140	Belgium	14.68 %
141	Romania	14.66 %
142	Portugal	14.53 %
143	Slovenia	14.11 %
144	Malta	14.05 %
145	Latvia	13.75 %
146	Ireland	13.44 %
147	Iceland	13.34 %
148	France	13.34 %
149	United Kingdom	13.22 %
150	Croatia	13.06 %
151	Canada	13.02 %
152	Singapore	12.82 %
153	Puerto Rico	12.65 %
154	Finland	12.54 %
155	Austria	12.21 %
156	Estonia	12.07 %
157	Bulgaria	11.94 %
158	Hungary	11.79 %
159	Lithuania	11.68 %
160	Israel	11.43 %
161	Jordan	11.35 %
162	Luxembourg	10.31 %
163	Sweden	10.30 %
164	Cyprus	9.94 %
165	Japan	9.25 %
166	Virgin Islands, U.S.	9.08 %
167	Germany	8.18 %
168	Denmark	8.05 %
169	Hong Kong	7.80 %
170	Brunei Darussalam	7.38 %
171	Macao	7.07 %
172	Belarus	6.99 %
173	Russian Federation	6.40 %
174	United States	6.19 %
175	Saudi Arabia	5.57 %
176	United Arab Emirates	5.14 %
177	Oman	4.96 %
178	Norway	4.94 %
179	Kuwait	3.09 %
180	Bahrain	2.54 %
181	Qatar	0.83 %

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Self-employed workers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners or in cooperative, hold the type of jobs defined as a "self-employment jobs." i.e. jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced. Self-employed workers include sub-categories of employers, own-account workers and members of producers' cooperatives and contributing family workers.

Source: World Bank Development Indicators

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