World Bank · Labor

Egypt: Self-employed, male

26.21percent · 2025-8.7% 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 Egypt from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202526.215
202426.302
202326.447
202225.206
202126.247
202026.618
201927.753
201829.914
201730.253
201628.812
201528.717
201431.136
201330.892
201230.414
201131.155
201030.043
200930.732
200830.965
200731.305
200628.33
200530.238
200433.705
200333.31
200231.333
200130.237
200031.096
199929.836
199831.099
199730.267
199631.751
199533.112
199433.666
199334.346
199234.157
199134.291

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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