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Pakistan: Self-employed, male

52.29percent · 2025-7.6% 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 Pakistan from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202552.287
202452.465
202352.594
202252.709
202152.949
202054.164
201954.637
201853.322
201754.411
201655.459
201556.569
201456.558
201356.17
201256.282
201156.368
201056.788
200956.964
200856.97
200755.989
200656.255
200556.567
200460.087
200358.965
200259.008
200163.431
200063.433
199962.483
199862.532
199762.441
199664.134
199564.25
199464.179
199364.366
199264.696
199164.922

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 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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