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Saudi Arabia: Self-employed, male

5.28percent · 2025+50.8% 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 Saudi Arabia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20255.281
20245.302
20234.888
20226.402
20216.409
20205.494
20195.174
20182.763
20173.161
20163.359
20153.502
20143.504
20133.755
20124.01
20114.366
20104.844
20095.221
20085.221
20075.618
20065.916
20056.23
20046.638
20036.956
20027.21
20017.354
20007.474
19997.851
19988.057
19978.085
19968.216
19958.434
19948.613
19938.806
19928.973
19919.116

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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