World Bank · Labor

Nigeria: Self-employed, male

83.04percent · 2025-1.6% 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 Nigeria from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202583.04
202483.308
202383.555
202283.903
202184.226
202084.747
201983.566
201883.755
201783.949
201684.16
201584.361
201484.662
201385.048
201285.445
201185.85
201086.34
200986.914
200887.413
200787.954
200688.505
200589.077
200489.689
200390.352
200290.98
200191.525
200091.86
199992.169
199892.388
199792.537
199692.72
199592.906
199493.096
199393.242
199293.433
199193.791

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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