World Bank · Labor

Kenya: Self-employed, male

56.68percent · 2025+5.1% 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 Kenya from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202556.675
202456.89
202357.225
202257.587
202157.975
202056.484
201953.868
201853.809
201753.847
201653.838
201553.917
201454.011
201354.092
201254.15
201154.224
201054.317
200954.395
200854.363
200754.315
200654.435
200554.438
200454.389
200354.282
200254.026
200153.752
200053.524
199953.323
199853.412
199753.475
199653.461
199553.549
199453.512
199353.466
199253.369
199153.422

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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