Percentage of self-employed:

🇳🇪 Niger: 95.1%

🇪🇹 Ethiopia: 85.6%

🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 84.3%

🇳🇬 Nigeria: 80.6%

🇮🇳 India: 76.1%

🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 59.0%

🇵🇰 Pakistan: 55.6%

🇻🇳 Vietnam: 53.7%

🇮🇩 Indonesia: 52.6%

🇨🇴 Colombia: 50.9%

🇨🇳 China: 44.5%

🇮🇷 Iran: 43.0%

🇧🇷 Brazil: 35.1%

🇲🇽 Mexico: 31.6%

🇹🇷 Turkey: 29.4%

🇪🇬 Egypt: 27.1%

🇨🇱 Chile: 27.0%

🇰🇷 S Korea: 23.9%

🇮🇹 Italy: 21.9%

🇵🇱 Poland: 19.8%

🇦🇺 Australia: 16.6%

🇪🇸 Spain: 15.9%

🇫🇮 Finland: 14.7%

🇨🇦 Canada: 14.3%

🇬🇧 UK: 14.3%

🇫🇷 France: 12.5%

🇮🇱 Israel: 12.3%

🇸🇪 Sweden: 10.5%

🇯🇵 Japan: 9.8%

🇩🇪 Germany: 8.3%

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 6.8%

🇺🇸 US: 6.6%

🇷🇺 Russia: 6.6%

🇦🇪 UAE: 5.1%

🇳🇴 Norway: 4.5%

🇰🇼 Kuwait: 1.7%

🇶🇦 Qatar: 0.4%

% of total employment. 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."

*according to International Labour Organization. “ILO modelled estimates database” ILOSTAT, 2021