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Kuwait: Self-employed, male

3.68percent · 2025+160.1% 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 Kuwait from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20253.683
20243.61
20233.41
20223.131
20213.352
20203.323
20192.583
20182.345
20172.266
20162.196
20151.416
20141.426
20131.394
20121.434
20111.605
20101.907
20091.973
20081.705
20072.332
20062.794
20053.488
20043.846
20034.169
20024.379
20014.257
20004.135
19994.345
19984.508
19974.374
19964.5
19954.987
19945.543
19936.128
19926.967
19917.828

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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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 2026-11-05.

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