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