Arab Region | Self employment rate, percentage of female employment, female, estimates (Arab countries,1991–2021)
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 four sub-categories of employers, own-account workers, members of producers' cooperatives, and contributing family workers.
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Arab Region | Self employment rate, percentage of female employment, female, estimates (Arab countries,1991–2021)
| Year | Location |
value
Min
Max
|
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Syria | 59.65 |
| 2000 | Syria | 53.57 |
| 2008 | Syria | 28.03 |
| 2010 | Syria | 24.13 |
| 2013 | Syria | 15.81 |
| 2018 | Syria | 13.33 |
| 1995 | Algeria | 39.98 |
| 2010 | Algeria | 26.35 |
| 2021 | Algeria | 23.67 |
| 2011 | Bahrain | 3.19 |
| 2015 | Bahrain | 3.1 |
| 2017 | Bahrain | 3.09 |
| 2006 | Comoros | 81.07 |
| 2015 | Comoros | 70.64 |
| 2018 | Comoros | 70.87 |
| 2011 | Djibouti | 71.21 |
| 2013 | Djibouti | 68.59 |
| 2015 | Djibouti | 66.9 |
| 1991 | Egypt | 51.29 |
| 2004 | Egypt | 51.3 |
| 2009 | Egypt | 49.52 |
| 1993 | Iraq | 36.32 |
| 2014 | Iraq | 27.73 |
| 1991 | Jordan | 3.29 |
| 1995 | Jordan | 3.31 |
| 1996 | Jordan | 3.36 |
| 1999 | Jordan | 3.43 |
| 1991 | Kuwait | 0.53 |
| 1997 | Kuwait | 0.5 |
| 2006 | Kuwait | 0.4 |
| 2010 | Kuwait | 0.79 |
| 2011 | Kuwait | 1.13 |
| 2013 | Kuwait | 0.43 |
| 2016 | Kuwait | 0.6 |
| 2020 | Kuwait | 0.49 |
| 2001 | Lebanon | 14.75 |
| 2007 | Lebanon | 17.38 |
| 2013 | Lebanon | 15.99 |
| 2009 | Libya | 24.84 |
| 2014 | Libya | 26.36 |
| 2016 | Libya | 28.53 |
| 1992 | Mauritania | 74.19 |
| 1999 | Mauritania | 74.04 |
| 2007 | Mauritania | 71.51 |
| 2017 | Mauritania | 77.14 |
| 2021 | Mauritania | 77.17 |
| 1995 | Morocco | 72.06 |
| 1996 | Morocco | 71.66 |
| 1998 | Morocco | 70.82 |
| 2001 | Morocco | 67.59 |
| 2015 | Morocco | 62.76 |
| 1994 | Oman | 7.44 |
| 2006 | Oman | 6.42 |
| 2010 | Oman | 4.64 |
| 2011 | Oman | 4.56 |
| 1995 | Palestine | 52.79 |
| 1998 | Palestine | 48.19 |
| 1999 | Palestine | 45.42 |
| 2002 | Palestine | 39.48 |
| 2009 | Palestine | 33.01 |
| 2011 | Palestine | 35.13 |
| 2014 | Palestine | 37.59 |
| 1999 | Qatar | 0.28 |
| 2001 | Qatar | 0.24 |
| 2002 | Qatar | 0.24 |
| 2015 | Qatar | 0.39 |
| 2019 | Qatar | 0.38 |
| 1992 | Saudi Arabia | 2.04 |
| 1994 | Saudi Arabia | 2.11 |
| 2000 | Saudi Arabia | 2.35 |
| 2010 | Saudi Arabia | 2.22 |
| 2000 | Somalia | 96.26 |
| 2002 | Somalia | 96.28 |
| 2004 | Somalia | 96.14 |
| 2007 | Somalia | 96.56 |
| 1995 | Sudan | 71.33 |
| 2002 | Sudan | 70.28 |
| 2003 | Sudan | 70 |
| 2004 | Sudan | 69.92 |
| 2009 | Sudan | 68.44 |
| 2010 | Sudan | 68.44 |
| 2016 | Sudan | 65.15 |
| 2020 | Sudan | 63.65 |
| 1997 | Tunisia | 29.88 |
| 2002 | Tunisia | 28.22 |
| 2007 | Tunisia | 24.27 |
| 2011 | Tunisia | 20.51 |
| 2019 | Tunisia | 13.29 |
| 1993 | United Arab Emirates | 1.1 |
| 1994 | United Arab Emirates | 1.11 |
| 2004 | United Arab Emirates | 1.16 |
| 2009 | United Arab Emirates | 0.99 |
| 2021 | United Arab Emirates | 6.31 |
| 1992 | Yemen | 69.8 |
| 1994 | Yemen | 69.47 |
| 1998 | Yemen | 66.83 |
| 2007 | Yemen | 66.66 |
| 2009 | Yemen | 66.69 |
| 2015 | Yemen | 68.01 |
| 2017 | Yemen | 71.15 |
Arab Region | Self employment rate, percentage of female employment, female, estimates (Arab countries,1991–2021)
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 four sub-categories of employers, own-account workers, members of producers' cooperatives, and contributing family workers.
Publisher
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
682
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