World Bank · Labor

Ghana: Self-employed, male

61.84percent · 2025-11.1% 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 Ghana from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202561.842
202462.231
202362.571
202262.844
202163.138
202064.436
201964.531
201865.74
201767
201668.313
201569.577
201470.078
201370.625
201271.23
201171.885
201072.591
200973.057
200873.597
200774.19
200674.688
200575.23
200475.733
200376.2
200276.636
200177.054
200077.464
199978.195
199878.872
199779.531
199679.964
199580.394
199480.826
199381.279
199281.897
199182.331

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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