Arab Region | Self employment rate, percentage of male employment, male, 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 male employment, male, estimates (Arab countries, 1991–2021)
1996 Algeria 38.56
2001 Algeria 37.88
2014 Algeria 32.31
2017 Algeria 33.11
1993 Bahrain 5.86
1994 Bahrain 5.61
2003 Bahrain 4.46
2008 Bahrain 3.87
2017 Bahrain 2.52
2008 Comoros 57.33
2009 Comoros 56.4
2010 Comoros 55.47
2020 Comoros 52.93
1992 Djibouti 56.89
1996 Djibouti 57.49
1997 Djibouti 57.67
2003 Djibouti 57.22
1995 Egypt 41.86
1998 Egypt 40.46
2001 Egypt 39.32
2005 Egypt 37.83
2012 Egypt 35.98
2016 Egypt 29.2
1991 Iraq 30.16
1995 Iraq 31.85
1998 Iraq 31.37
2010 Iraq 29.19
2021 Iraq 23.45
1998 Jordan 17.3
2004 Jordan 17.69
2008 Jordan 16.64
2017 Jordan 17.04
2018 Jordan 14.43
2019 Jordan 13.88
1994 Kuwait 4.24
1998 Kuwait 3.99
1999 Kuwait 3.96
2001 Kuwait 3.97
2005 Kuwait 3.44
2009 Kuwait 2.3
2020 Kuwait 2.09
1996 Lebanon 41.51
2005 Lebanon 42.97
1993 Libya 24.64
2004 Libya 27.45
2015 Libya 32.64
2001 Mauritania 54
2013 Mauritania 50.47
2015 Mauritania 49.33
1994 Morocco 53.18
2008 Morocco 50.47
2000 Oman 11.81
2005 Oman 6.42
2014 Oman 3.39
2018 Oman 3.38
1991 Palestine 35.14
2001 Palestine 39.36
2004 Palestine 42.12
2008 Palestine 34.71
2014 Palestine 31.24
2020 Palestine 28.89
1997 Qatar 1.47
2005 Qatar 1.2
2010 Qatar 0.67
2011 Qatar 0.59
2013 Qatar 0.5
2016 Qatar 0.41
1993 Saudi Arabia 8.7
1996 Saudi Arabia 8.48
1997 Saudi Arabia 8.52
2003 Saudi Arabia 8.29
2009 Saudi Arabia 7.49
2013 Saudi Arabia 5.92
2014 Saudi Arabia 5.55
2017 Saudi Arabia 3.06
1992 Somalia 86.04
2021 Somalia 87.23
1997 Sudan 57.8
2000 Sudan 57.52
2007 Sudan 55.03
2008 Sudan 54.45
2017 Sudan 49.61
2021 Sudan 48.37
1992 Syria 50.89
2002 Syria 49.55
2008 Syria 39.91
2009 Syria 40.64
1994 Tunisia 29.14
1995 Tunisia 29.61
2004 Tunisia 31.62
2009 Tunisia 33.03
2016 Tunisia 30.57
2020 Tunisia 25.37
1991 United Arab Emirates 3.62
2000 United Arab Emirates 3.48
2005 United Arab Emirates 3.31
2006 United Arab Emirates 3.56
1994 Yemen 46.38
1995 Yemen 46.02
2008 Yemen 46.35

Arab Region | Self employment rate, percentage of male employment, male, 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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