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Employers, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate)

Name: Employers, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trend-research-200, world-bank, labor-jobs-occupational-safety, employers, total, employment, modeled, estimate

Compare employers, total (% of total employment) (modeled ilo estimate) across 181 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2025.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•181 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

3.8%

Median: 3.4%

Countries Covered

181

with available data

Highest

Djibouti

20.8%

Lowest

Moldova, Republic of

0.2%

Top 5 Countries

1Djibouti20.8%

2Nigeria19.7%

3Timor-Leste16.2%

4Azerbaijan13.1%

5Uzbekistan12.1%

By Region

Oceania6.4%(2 countries)

Africa6.2%(9 countries)

Europe3.8%(31 countries)

Other3.7%(103 countries)

North America3.5%(4 countries)

Key Findings

•181 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Djibouti has the highest published value (20.8278 %).
•Moldova, Republic of has the lowest published value (0.162941 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.2%)High (20.8%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 3.8%)

Oceania (2)

Africa (9)

Europe (31)

Other (103)

North America (4)

South America (7)

Asia (25)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Employers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners, 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), and, in this capacity, have engaged, on a continuous basis, one or more persons to work for them as employee(s).

Values use one fixed 2025 reference year from World Development Indicators series SL.EMP.MPYR.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.

Methodology

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Djibouti	20.8%
2	Nigeria	19.7%
3	Timor-Leste	16.2%
4	Azerbaijan	13.1%
5	Uzbekistan	12.1%
6	Honduras	10.2%
7	Angola	9.6%
8	Sao Tome and Principe	9.0%
9	Tonga	8.1%
10	Papua New Guinea	7.5%
11	Ghana	7.5%
12	Greece	7.4%
13	Switzerland	7.3%
14	Yemen	7.1%
15	Tunisia	7.0%
16	Australia	7.0%
17	Italy	6.8%
18	Namibia	6.6%
19	Croatia	6.4%
20	Somalia	6.2%
21	Uganda	6.1%
22	Central African Republic	6.0%
23	Lesotho	5.9%
24	New Zealand	5.8%
25	Guyana	5.8%
26	Niger	5.7%
27	South Africa	5.6%
28	Cuba	5.6%
29	Mexico	5.5%
30	Nicaragua	5.4%
31	Belize	5.3%
32	North Korea	5.3%
33	Paraguay	5.2%
34	Republic of The Gambia	5.1%
35	Latvia	5.0%
36	South Korea	5.0%
37	Estonia	5.0%
38	Iceland	4.9%
39	Bulgaria	4.9%
40	El Salvador	4.8%
41	France	4.8%
42	Portugal	4.8%
43	Saint Lucia	4.8%
44	Algeria	4.6%
45	Türkiye	4.6%
46	Morocco	4.5%
47	Iraq	4.5%
48	Eritrea	4.5%
49	Trinidad and Tobago	4.5%
50	Spain	4.5%
51	Equatorial Guinea	4.4%
52	Austria	4.3%
53	Libya	4.3%
54	People's Republic of China	4.3%
55	The Republic of North Macedonia	4.3%
56	Albania	4.2%
57	Brazil	4.2%
58	Cape Verde	4.2%
59	Jamaica	4.2%
60	Dominican Republic	4.1%
61	Mauritania	4.1%
62	Suriname	4.1%
63	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.0%
64	Poland	3.9%
65	Madagascar	3.9%
66	Saudi Arabia	3.9%
67	Peru	3.8%
68	Malta	3.8%
69	Germany	3.8%
70	Hungary	3.8%
71	Guam	3.8%
72	Turkmenistan	3.8%
73	Ireland	3.7%
74	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	3.7%
75	Bangladesh	3.7%
76	Georgia	3.7%
77	Israel	3.6%
78	Uruguay	3.6%
79	Virgin Islands, U.S.	3.6%
80	Bolivia	3.6%
81	Syrian Arab Republic	3.6%
82	United Arab Emirates	3.6%
83	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.6%
84	Belgium	3.6%
85	Malaysia	3.5%
86	Macao	3.4%
87	French Polynesia	3.4%
88	Islamic Republic of Iran	3.4%
89	Singapore	3.4%
90	Luxembourg	3.4%
91	Indonesia	3.4%
92	Netherlands	3.4%
93	Sweden	3.4%
94	Canada	3.4%
95	Jordan	3.4%
96	Slovenia	3.4%
97	India	3.3%
98	Argentina	3.3%
99	Tajikistan	3.3%
100	Costa Rica	3.2%
101	Cambodia	3.2%
102	Maldives	3.1%
103	Serbia	3.1%
104	Venezuela	3.1%
105	Slovakia	3.1%
106	Finland	3.1%
107	Montenegro	3.1%
108	Egypt	3.0%
109	Chile	3.0%
110	New Caledonia	3.0%
111	Guatemala	2.9%
112	Mauritius	2.9%
113	Samoa	2.9%
114	Sri Lanka	2.8%
115	Mongolia	2.8%
116	Brunei Darussalam	2.8%
117	Guinea	2.8%
118	Sierra Leone	2.8%
119	Thailand	2.7%
120	Panama	2.7%
121	Colombia	2.7%
122	Vanuatu	2.6%
123	Gabon	2.6%
124	Myanmar	2.6%
125	Zimbabwe	2.6%
126	Philippines	2.5%
127	Denmark	2.5%
128	Botswana	2.5%
129	Puerto Rico	2.3%
130	United States of America	2.3%
131	Czech Republic	2.2%
132	Ecuador	2.2%
133	Burkina Faso	2.0%
134	Vietnam	1.9%
135	Hong Kong	1.9%
136	Eswatini	1.8%
137	Cyprus	1.8%
138	Cameroon	1.7%
139	Bahrain	1.7%
140	United Republic of Tanzania	1.7%
141	Afghanistan	1.6%
142	Mozambique	1.6%
143	United Kingdom	1.6%
144	Nepal	1.6%
145	Togo	1.6%
146	Japan	1.6%
147	Zambia	1.6%
148	Kyrgyzstan	1.5%
149	Cote d'Ivoire	1.5%
150	Liberia	1.5%
151	Pakistan	1.5%
152	Romania	1.4%
153	Russian Federation	1.4%
154	Malawi	1.4%
155	Senegal	1.3%
156	Chad	1.3%
157	Kazakhstan	1.3%
158	Benin	1.3%
159	Solomon Islands	1.3%
160	Fiji	1.3%
161	Burundi	1.2%
162	Oman	1.1%
163	Lithuania	1.1%
164	Bahamas	1.1%
165	Rwanda	1.1%
166	Comoros	1.1%
167	Kenya	1.0%
168	Republic of the Congo	0.9%
169	Armenia	0.8%
170	Haiti	0.8%
171	Lao People's Democratic Republic	0.8%
172	Kuwait	0.8%
173	Barbados	0.7%
174	Norway	0.7%
175	Mali	0.6%
176	Guinea-Bissau	0.5%
177	Belarus	0.5%
178	Bhutan	0.5%
179	Qatar	0.4%
180	Ethiopia	0.2%
181	Moldova, Republic of	0.2%

Showing 181 of 181 countries

Topics

#trend-research-200 #world-bank #labor-jobs-occupational-safety #employers #total #employment #modeled #estimate

Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).

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