World Bank · Labor

Somalia: Self-employed, male

46.47percent · 2025-1.7% 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 Somalia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202546.466
202446.523
202346.552
202246.573
202146.487
202046.957
201945.948
201846.147
201746.444
201646.91
201547.268
201447.707
201348.138
201248.602
201149.065
201049.661
200950.188
200850.704
200751.197
200651.089
200551.421
200451.767
200352.113
200252.447
200152.697
200052.899
199953.042
199853.103
199753.062
199652.916
199552.755
199452.442
199351.993
199252.165
199152.375

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Self-employed, male. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-male (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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