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Maldives: Self-employed, male

16.55percent · 2025-18.7% 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 Maldives from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202516.547
202416.851
202317.151
202217.409
202117.71
202018.03
201918.33
201818.948
201719.548
201620.14
201520.351
201420.532
201322.564
201224.545
201126.444
201028.37
200930.153
200830.268
200730.653
200630.939
200531.276
200431.264
200331.596
200231.919
200132.05
200032.115
199932.479
199832.885
199733.308
199633.733
199534.159
199434.591
199334.941
199235.305
199135.724

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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