World Bank · Labor

Ethiopia: Self-employed, male

82.57percent · 2025-2.9% 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 Ethiopia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202582.566
202482.886
202383.211
202283.486
202183.769
202084.176
201983.379
201883.759
201784.148
201684.582
201585.037
201485.502
201385.971
201286.408
201186.882
201087.387
200987.881
200888.337
200788.808
200689.224
200589.567
200489.502
200389.462
200289.226
200189.127
200089.082
199988.933
199888.94
199788.916
199689.046
199589.193
199489.174
199389.063
199288.925
199188.518

Source

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

The dataset for every country, with quality and provenance →

Cite or download

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

CSV, all countriesJSON, EthiopiaAPI and MCP

Self-employed, male in other countries

Rank Ethiopia against its region, see where publishers disagree, or ask a question in plain words on the Interva desk.

Ethiopia: Self-employed, male (1991–2025) · Interva