World Bank · Labor

Yemen: Self-employed, male

51.86percent · 2025+5.8% 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 Yemen from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202551.857
202451.749
202351.624
202251.47
202151.298
202051.96
201951.265
201850.914
201750.397
201649.708
201549.013
201448.199
201347.865
201247.496
201147.003
201046.479
200946.392
200846.155
200746.005
200645.824
200545.679
200445.613
200345.532
200245.452
200145.373
200045.285
199945.347
199845.674
199745.869
199646.176
199546.549
199446.921
199347.144
199247.274
199147.489

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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