World Bank · Labor

Panama: Self-employed, male

42.90percent · 2025+12.0% 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 Panama from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202542.897
202442.976
202341.484
202245.913
202143.339
202043.59
201943.401
201841.19
201739.631
201639.929
201538.299
201437.392
201336.605
201236.567
201138.255
201038.951
200939.22
200833.621
200739.803
200642.743
200543.153
200443.4
200343.744
200243.067
200142.318
200041.525
199940.805
199840.25
199739.553
199639.658
199539.658
199439.793
199339.925
199240.205
199140.361

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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