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Jamaica: Self-employed, male

40.14percent · 2025-12.3% 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 Jamaica from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202540.141
202440.306
202340.387
202241.635
202142.961
202044.041
201942.432
201843.929
201744.413
201644.82
201545.775
201446.591
201346.435
201246.665
201145.744
201048.027
200946.828
200843.223
200740.719
200642.333
200541.342
200442.19
200343.618
200243.262
200144.585
200045.172
199945.26
199845.626
199745.062
199644.589
199544.838
199445.494
199345.629
199247.543
199147.679

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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