World Bank · Labor

Afghanistan: Self-employed, male

82.77percent · 2025-1.0% since 2015

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 sub-categories of employers, own-account workers and members of producers' cooperatives and contributing family workers. Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Afghanistan from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202582.77
202482.724
202382.468
202282.084
202180.417
202082.48
201981.921
201881.847
201781.701
201682.751
201583.629
201484.483
201385.381
201286.433
201187.611
201088.772
200990.125
200891.379
200791.835
200692.344
200592.721
200493.104
200393.373
200293.7
200193.992
200094.012
199994.26
199894.486
199794.686
199694.851
199594.943
199494.927
199394.831
199294.783
199194.699

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Self-employed, male. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-male (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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