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Benin: Self-employed, male

75.56percent · 2025-3.8% 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 Benin from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202575.56
202475.913
202376.252
202276.579
202177.279
202078.322
201977.383
201877.757
201778.075
201678.323
201578.537
201478.739
201378.988
201279.223
201179.365
201079.479
200979.601
200879.746
200779.913
200680.066
200580.182
200480.317
200380.495
200280.692
200180.957
200081.223
199981.483
199881.704
199781.905
199682.131
199582.334
199482.497
199382.823
199282.977
199183.098

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 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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