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

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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