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Iraq: Self-employed, male

30.96percent · 2025+1.2% 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 Iraq from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202530.961
202430.852
202330.847
202230.779
202130.696
202030.617
201930.21
201829.101
201729.478
201630.107
201530.58
201430.215
201327.131
201228.168
201129.367
201030.464
200931.532
200832.572
200733.655
200633.822
200533.911
200433.874
200333.833
200233.881
200134.105
200034.738
199935.541
199836.294
199736.961
199637.126
199537.034
199436.841
199336.701
199236.612
199136.562

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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