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Malaysia: Self-employed, male

29.61percent · 2025-6.1% 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 Malaysia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202529.605
202429.743
202329.883
202229.984
202130.442
202030.638
201930.728
201830.948
201731.146
201631.349
201531.543
201431.717
201331.802
201231.846
201131.843
201031.963
200932.075
200832.101
200732.352
200632.641
200532.878
200433.086
200333.306
200233.453
200133.598
200033.697
199933.794
199833.64
199733.515
199633.726
199533.917
199434.108
199334.287
199234.458
199134.593

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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