Arab Region | Self employment rate, percentage of total employment, 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 total employment, estimates (Arab countries, 1991–2021)
| Location |
value
Min
Max
|
Year |
|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 38.2 | 1991 |
| Algeria | 38.49 | 1993 |
| Algeria | 32.83 | 2007 |
| Algeria | 31.56 | 2016 |
| Algeria | 32.11 | 2019 |
| Bahrain | 5.33 | 1992 |
| Bahrain | 4.82 | 1994 |
| Bahrain | 4.08 | 1999 |
| Bahrain | 4.32 | 2004 |
| Bahrain | 3.73 | 2009 |
| Bahrain | 2.7 | 2012 |
| Comoros | 58.57 | 2014 |
| Djibouti | 61.15 | 2000 |
| Djibouti | 60.74 | 2003 |
| Djibouti | 57.39 | 2011 |
| Djibouti | 56.34 | 2013 |
| Djibouti | 53.52 | 2017 |
| Egypt | 40.06 | 2000 |
| Egypt | 40 | 2005 |
| Egypt | 38.2 | 2006 |
| Egypt | 39.17 | 2014 |
| Egypt | 28.9 | 2019 |
| Iraq | 31.04 | 1992 |
| Iraq | 32.75 | 1997 |
| Iraq | 32.06 | 2008 |
| Jordan | 14.9 | 1996 |
| Jordan | 15.11 | 1999 |
| Jordan | 15.04 | 2005 |
| Jordan | 14.25 | 2010 |
| Jordan | 14.63 | 2015 |
| Jordan | 14.73 | 2017 |
| Jordan | 12.68 | 2018 |
| Kuwait | 3.18 | 1995 |
| Kuwait | 3.05 | 1997 |
| Kuwait | 1.32 | 2014 |
| Kuwait | 1.06 | 2015 |
| Kuwait | 1.71 | 2019 |
| Kuwait | 1.69 | 2021 |
| Lebanon | 36.48 | 1992 |
| Lebanon | 36.13 | 1994 |
| Lebanon | 35.69 | 2000 |
| Lebanon | 37.02 | 2005 |
| Libya | 24.72 | 1993 |
| Mauritania | 59.41 | 1993 |
| Mauritania | 59.69 | 2005 |
| Mauritania | 57.06 | 2014 |
| Morocco | 57.59 | 1997 |
| Morocco | 58.75 | 2003 |
| Morocco | 60.23 | 2005 |
| Morocco | 53.79 | 2010 |
| Morocco | 51.35 | 2016 |
| Oman | 13.08 | 1996 |
| Oman | 12.51 | 1998 |
| Oman | 3.61 | 2016 |
| Oman | 3.48 | 2021 |
| Palestine | 36.4 | 1997 |
| Palestine | 35.35 | 1998 |
| Palestine | 35.43 | 2008 |
| Palestine | 33.46 | 2011 |
| Palestine | 31.95 | 2013 |
| Qatar | 1.29 | 1993 |
| Qatar | 1.28 | 1995 |
| Qatar | 1.29 | 1996 |
| Qatar | 1.15 | 2001 |
| Qatar | 0.76 | 2008 |
| Qatar | 0.49 | 2013 |
| Qatar | 0.41 | 2017 |
| Qatar | 0.43 | 2019 |
| Saudi Arabia | 8.34 | 1991 |
| Saudi Arabia | 7.93 | 1993 |
| Saudi Arabia | 7.75 | 1995 |
| Somalia | 89.97 | 1999 |
| Somalia | 89.16 | 2013 |
| Sudan | 61.62 | 1991 |
| Sudan | 61.52 | 1993 |
| Sudan | 58.82 | 2007 |
| Sudan | 53.49 | 2017 |
| Sudan | 52.74 | 2019 |
| Syria | 44.41 | 2006 |
| Syria | 46.26 | 2007 |
| Syria | 37.98 | 2012 |
| Syria | 40.24 | 2013 |
| Syria | 42.32 | 2015 |
| Syria | 42.37 | 2016 |
| Tunisia | 29.86 | 1991 |
| Tunisia | 29.77 | 1995 |
| Tunisia | 29.87 | 2009 |
| Tunisia | 27.87 | 2013 |
| Tunisia | 24.04 | 2018 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3.34 | 1991 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3.33 | 1992 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3.33 | 1994 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3.28 | 1997 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3.66 | 2007 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3.6 | 2011 |
| Yemen | 50.9 | 1994 |
| Yemen | 50.67 | 1996 |
| Yemen | 49.74 | 2001 |
| Yemen | 49.62 | 2013 |
| Yemen | 54.62 | 2017 |
Arab Region | Self employment rate, percentage of total employment, 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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