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Namibia: Self-employed, male

31.58percent · 2025+22.4% 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 Namibia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202531.582
202431.746
202331.891
202231.957
202132.326
202032.669
201932.268
201832.218
201728.455
201624.728
201525.794
201426.987
201327.667
201230.179
201130.434
201030.621
200930.869
200831.099
200731.405
200631.774
200532.136
200432.441
200332.767
200232.875
200132.947
200032.925
199932.967
199833.001
199733.009
199633.127
199533.205
199433.255
199333.183
199233.109
199133.126

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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