Global Rankings: Self Employment % (2025)

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

About This Indicator

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.

Data source: World Bank Development Indicators