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Botswana: Self-employed, male

28.09percent · 2025-8.1% 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 Botswana from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202528.093
202428.104
202328.161
202228.35
202128.854
202029.254
201929.754
201829.956
201730.171
201630.377
201530.573
201430.67
201330.955
201230.359
201129.594
201028.931
200928.16
200826.808
200725.88
200625.088
200524.27
200423.446
200322.651
200221.941
200121.245
200020.502
199919.891
199819.337
199718.641
199618.024
199518.117
199418.223
199318.291
199218.411
199118.678

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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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 2026-11-05.

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