World Bank · Labor

Sierra Leone: Self-employed, male

83.02percent · 2025-0.4% 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 Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202583.018
202483.344
202383.662
202284.04
202184.343
202085.048
201983.249
201883.421
201783.422
201683.367
201583.356
201483.087
201383.684
201284.515
201185.039
201085.304
200985.616
200885.918
200786.311
200686.756
200587.147
200487.569
200388.039
200288.494
200188.825
200088.611
199988.728
199888.65
199788.529
199688.262
199588.072
199487.694
199387.42
199287.078
199186.554

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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