Rank	Country	Value
1	Chad	91.56 %
2	Niger	89.48 %
3	Sierra Leone	88.81 %
4	Madagascar	88.32 %
5	Nigeria	86.15 %
6	Central African Republic	85.40 %
7	Tanzania, United Republic of	85.34 %
8	Mozambique	85.31 %
9	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	85.08 %
10	Burundi	84.85 %
11	Ethiopia	84.31 %
12	Afghanistan	83.40 %
13	Burkina Faso	82.60 %
14	Guinea	81.95 %
15	Uganda	80.53 %
16	Benin	79.83 %
17	Papua New Guinea	78.67 %
18	Nepal	78.58 %
19	Liberia	78.34 %
20	Lao People's Democratic Republic	77.14 %
21	Haiti	76.83 %
22	Congo	76.76 %
23	Togo	76.62 %
24	Mali	76.35 %
25	Angola	75.90 %
26	Guinea-Bissau	75.47 %
27	India	74.90 %
28	Timor-Leste	74.86 %
29	Zambia	71.73 %
30	Côte d'Ivoire	70.97 %
31	Zimbabwe	70.78 %
32	Solomon Islands	69.94 %
33	Bhutan	69.51 %
34	Cameroon	69.28 %
35	Gambia	68.61 %
36	Ghana	67.46 %
37	Azerbaijan	66.98 %
38	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	66.27 %
39	Myanmar	65.47 %
40	Kenya	64.80 %
41	Senegal	64.32 %
42	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	62.05 %
43	Malawi	61.26 %
44	Bangladesh	61.04 %
45	Vanuatu	60.62 %
46	Moldova, Republic of	58.78 %
47	Comoros	57.90 %
48	Mauritania	57.45 %
49	Pakistan	57.00 %
50	Cambodia	55.52 %
51	Viet Nam	53.35 %
52	Indonesia	53.34 %
53	Yemen	52.64 %
54	Eritrea	52.37 %
55	Ecuador	52.33 %
56	Somalia	52.18 %
57	Peru	51.35 %
58	Djibouti	51.12 %
59	Thailand	50.70 %
60	Albania	50.28 %
61	Georgia	46.07 %
62	Colombia	45.64 %
63	Uzbekistan	45.44 %
64	Samoa	44.51 %
65	Nicaragua	44.27 %
66	Honduras	44.11 %
67	Sao Tome and Principe	43.99 %
68	Iran, Islamic Republic of	42.94 %
69	Syrian Arab Republic	42.44 %
70	Dominican Republic	42.10 %
71	Sri Lanka	42.07 %
72	Tonga	41.79 %
73	Paraguay	41.25 %
74	Mongolia	41.18 %
75	Panama	40.58 %
76	Rwanda	40.45 %
77	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	40.42 %
78	Morocco	40.06 %
79	Guatemala	39.08 %
80	Lesotho	38.52 %
81	Cabo Verde	38.46 %
82	China	37.67 %
83	Namibia	36.54 %
84	Philippines	36.15 %
85	Jamaica	35.75 %
86	El Salvador	35.66 %
87	Belize	35.18 %
88	Fiji	34.08 %
89	Armenia	33.66 %
90	Gabon	32.39 %
91	Turkmenistan	32.03 %
92	Iraq	31.66 %
93	Tajikistan	31.26 %
94	Guyana	31.11 %
95	Mexico	30.85 %
96	Kyrgyzstan	30.50 %
97	Greece	30.46 %
98	Brazil	30.29 %
99	Eswatini	30.22 %
100	Algeria	30.20 %
101	Türkiye	28.55 %
102	Botswana	28.11 %
103	Uruguay	27.97 %
104	Equatorial Guinea	27.50 %
105	Serbia	27.02 %
106	Egypt	26.98 %
107	Saint Lucia	26.74 %
108	Costa Rica	26.59 %
109	Kazakhstan	26.13 %
110	Libya	25.88 %
111	Trinidad and Tobago	25.72 %
112	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	25.67 %
113	Argentina	25.58 %
114	Malaysia	25.37 %
115	Tunisia	24.94 %
116	Cuba	24.90 %
117	Chile	23.92 %
118	Korea, Republic of	22.67 %
119	Suriname	22.48 %
120	Bosnia and Herzegovina	22.06 %
121	Italy	21.12 %
122	Maldives	20.05 %
123	Barbados	19.55 %
124	Poland	18.89 %
125	New Zealand	18.41 %
126	French Polynesia	18.20 %
127	Mauritius	17.79 %
128	Montenegro	17.36 %
129	South Africa	17.27 %
130	New Caledonia	17.14 %
131	Bahamas	17.05 %
132	Switzerland	16.86 %
133	Netherlands	16.79 %
134	North Macedonia	16.59 %
135	Australia	16.10 %
136	Czechia	15.72 %
137	Guam	15.52 %
138	Slovakia	14.87 %
139	Belgium	14.59 %
140	Spain	14.54 %
141	Romania	14.46 %
142	Portugal	14.43 %
143	Slovenia	13.96 %
144	Malta	13.90 %
145	Latvia	13.66 %
146	Ireland	13.37 %
147	Iceland	13.30 %
148	France	13.28 %
149	United Kingdom	13.15 %
150	Canada	12.91 %
151	Croatia	12.74 %
152	Singapore	12.69 %
153	Puerto Rico	12.61 %
154	Finland	12.54 %
155	Austria	12.20 %
156	Estonia	12.07 %
157	Bulgaria	11.80 %
158	Hungary	11.63 %
159	Lithuania	11.50 %
160	Israel	11.34 %
161	Jordan	11.21 %
162	Luxembourg	10.34 %
163	Sweden	10.24 %
164	Cyprus	10.17 %
165	Virgin Islands, U.S.	9.07 %
166	Japan	9.05 %
167	Germany	8.15 %
168	Denmark	7.91 %
169	Hong Kong	7.69 %
170	Brunei Darussalam	7.27 %
171	Belarus	6.83 %
172	Macao	6.76 %
173	Russian Federation	6.32 %
174	United States	6.07 %
175	Saudi Arabia	5.55 %
176	United Arab Emirates	5.07 %
177	Oman	4.96 %
178	Norway	4.87 %
179	Kuwait	3.16 %
180	Bahrain	2.44 %
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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