World Bank · Labor

Malawi: Self-employed, male

55.63percent · 2025-1.7% 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 Malawi from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202555.633
202455.659
202355.648
202255.656
202155.812
202056.372
201956.348
201856.482
201756.563
201656.591
201556.61
201456.679
201356.814
201256.946
201157.04
201057.253
200957.494
200857.728
200757.95
200658.153
200558.236
200458.274
200358.316
200258.318
200158.222
200058.1
199958.229
199858.429
199758.71
199658.975
199559.315
199459.604
199359.291
199259.386
199159.255

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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