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Nepal: Self-employed, male

71.38percent · 2025-4.5% 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 Nepal from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202571.378
202471.768
202372.128
202272.441
202172.786
202073.237
201972.875
201873.306
201773.869
201674.359
201574.746
201475.264
201375.812
201276.333
201176.879
201077.393
200977.908
200878.374
200778.811
200679.145
200579.467
200479.767
200380.073
200280.333
200180.576
200080.947
199981.303
199881.598
199781.872
199682.171
199582.452
199482.719
199383.022
199283.252
199183.56

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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