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Lesotho: Self-employed, male

42.17percent · 2025+0.4% 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 Lesotho from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202542.173
202442.215
202342.215
202242.055
202142.145
202042.561
201942.329
201842.119
201741.988
201641.895
201541.997
201442.083
201342.209
201242.379
201142.681
201042.986
200943.254
200843.408
200743.821
200644.216
200544.631
200445.005
200345.323
200245.646
200145.883
200046.214
199946.49
199846.694
199746.952
199647.249
199547.638
199447.983
199348.423
199248.837
199149.358

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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