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Sri Lanka: Self-employed, male

42.90percent · 2025-0.7% 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 Sri Lanka from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202542.9
202442.948
202342.87
202242.868
202143.333
202043.205
201942.201
201842.11
201741.173
201641.065
201543.197
201442.197
201342.91
201243.349
201143.973
201044.305
200944.594
200846.842
200746.43
200647.476
200543.883
200444.774
200346.339
200246.119
200145.768
200047.027
199946.01
199847.884
199745.344
199645.457
199545.559
199445.709
199345.639
199245.691
199146.015

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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