Lower middle income - Self-employed

Self-employed, female (% of female employment) (modeled ILO estimate)

Self-employed, female (% of female employment) (modeled ILO estimate) in Lower middle income was 66.50 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 28 years was 79.53 in 1995, while its lowest value was 66.50 in 2019.

Definition: 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.

Source: International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database. Data retrieved in September 2019.

See also:

Year Value
1991 79.47
1992 79.43
1993 79.50
1994 79.48
1995 79.53
1996 79.39
1997 79.04
1998 79.33
1999 79.40
2000 79.13
2001 78.69
2002 78.66
2003 78.61
2004 78.25
2005 77.54
2006 77.01
2007 76.67
2008 76.30
2009 75.96
2010 75.29
2011 73.86
2012 72.24
2013 71.54
2014 70.68
2015 69.66
2016 68.67
2017 67.81
2018 67.17
2019 66.50

Self-employed, male (% of male employment) (modeled ILO estimate)

Self-employed, male (% of male employment) (modeled ILO estimate) in Lower middle income was 62.01 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 28 years was 71.99 in 1991, while its lowest value was 62.01 in 2019.

Definition: 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.

Source: International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database. Data retrieved in September 2019.

See also:

Year Value
1991 71.99
1992 71.91
1993 71.87
1994 71.70
1995 71.65
1996 71.38
1997 71.19
1998 71.58
1999 71.56
2000 71.60
2001 71.27
2002 71.20
2003 71.11
2004 70.59
2005 70.23
2006 69.66
2007 69.21
2008 68.99
2009 68.66
2010 68.06
2011 67.09
2012 66.02
2013 65.44
2014 65.06
2015 64.27
2016 63.72
2017 63.20
2018 62.59
2019 62.01

Self-employed, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate)

Self-employed, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) in Lower middle income was 63.42 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 28 years was 74.34 in 1991, while its lowest value was 63.42 in 2019.

Definition: 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.

Source: International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database. Data retrieved in September 2019.

See also:

Year Value
1991 74.34
1992 74.29
1993 74.29
1994 74.18
1995 74.15
1996 73.92
1997 73.68
1998 74.05
1999 74.06
2000 74.01
2001 73.64
2002 73.58
2003 73.51
2004 73.03
2005 72.56
2006 71.99
2007 71.58
2008 71.30
2009 70.95
2010 70.32
2011 69.20
2012 67.94
2013 67.32
2014 66.79
2015 65.93
2016 65.25
2017 64.63
2018 64.02
2019 63.42

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Economic activity