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Zambia: Self-employed, male

64.52percent · 2025-2.5% 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 Zambia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202564.518
202464.89
202365.128
202266.477
202165.563
202068.459
201967.096
201865.396
201765.671
201665.886
201566.151
201468.017
201370.432
201273.331
201173.019
201072.753
200974.723
200876.661
200777.009
200677.359
200577.713
200477.346
200377.048
200276.7
200176.304
200075.804
199975.722
199875.566
199775.353
199675.272
199575.141
199474.879
199374.599
199274.59
199174.517

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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