Eritrea - Self-employed

Self-employed, female (% of female employment) (modeled ILO estimate)

Self-employed, female (% of female employment) (modeled ILO estimate) in Eritrea was 86.20 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 28 years was 92.90 in 1991, while its lowest value was 85.88 in 2014.

Definition: 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 four sub-categories of employers, own-account workers, members of producers' cooperatives, and contributing family workers.

Source: International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database. Data retrieved in September 2019.

See also:

Year Value
1991 92.90
1992 92.71
1993 92.46
1994 92.08
1995 92.04
1996 91.09
1997 89.99
1998 90.93
1999 91.15
2000 90.59
2001 89.37
2002 88.53
2003 89.82
2004 89.17
2005 88.86
2006 88.77
2007 88.43
2008 87.68
2009 88.11
2010 88.82
2011 87.75
2012 87.21
2013 87.55
2014 85.88
2015 86.71
2016 86.10
2017 87.01
2018 86.15
2019 86.20

Self-employed, male (% of male employment) (modeled ILO estimate)

Self-employed, male (% of male employment) (modeled ILO estimate) in Eritrea was 86.20 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 28 years was 91.33 in 1991, while its lowest value was 86.20 in 2019.

Definition: 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 four sub-categories of employers, own-account workers, members of producers' cooperatives, and contributing family workers.

Source: International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database. Data retrieved in September 2019.

See also:

Year Value
1991 91.33
1992 91.25
1993 90.63
1994 90.37
1995 89.65
1996 89.01
1997 88.59
1998 87.89
1999 87.27
2000 87.24
2001 87.48
2002 87.09
2003 87.29
2004 87.67
2005 87.52
2006 88.27
2007 88.02
2008 87.09
2009 87.87
2010 87.02
2011 86.80
2012 87.10
2013 87.35
2014 86.89
2015 87.21
2016 86.94
2017 86.89
2018 86.50
2019 86.20

Self-employed, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate)

Self-employed, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) in Eritrea was 86.20 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 28 years was 92.04 in 1991, while its lowest value was 86.20 in 2019.

Definition: 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 four sub-categories of employers, own-account workers, members of producers' cooperatives, and contributing family workers.

Source: International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database. Data retrieved in September 2019.

See also:

Year Value
1991 92.04
1992 91.90
1993 91.45
1994 91.13
1995 90.71
1996 89.94
1997 89.22
1998 89.26
1999 89.02
2000 88.75
2001 88.34
2002 87.76
2003 88.46
2004 88.37
2005 88.15
2006 88.50
2007 88.22
2008 87.37
2009 87.98
2010 87.86
2011 87.24
2012 87.15
2013 87.44
2014 86.43
2015 86.98
2016 86.55
2017 86.94
2018 86.34
2019 86.20

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Economic activity