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)
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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