Comoros: Self-employment

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 Comoros

Self-employment, percent of total employment

 Latest value 57.90
 Year 2025
 Measure percent
 Data availability 1991 - 2025
 Average 65.44
 Min - Max 57.90 - 72.30
 Source The World Bank
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The latest value from 2025 is 57.9 percent, a decline from 58.02 percent in 2024. In comparison, the world average is 38.92 percent, based on data from 176 countries. Historically, the average for the Comoros from 1991 to 2025 is 65.44 percent. The minimum value, 57.9 percent, was reached in 2025 while the maximum of 72.3 percent was recorded in 1996. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
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 Recent values Comoros: Self-employment
 2025 57.90
 2024 58.02
 2023 58.09
 2022 58.17
 2021 58.22
 2020 58.68
 2019 58.27
 2018 58.34




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

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 Labor force 0.31 2025 million people
 Unemployment rate 3.82 2025 percent
 Female unemployment 4.40 2025 percent
 Male unemployment 3.39 2025 percent
 Youth unemployment 8.75 2025 percent
 Labor force participation 55.77 2025 percent
 Labor force: percent female 42.68 2025 percent
 Female labor force participation 47.65 2025 percent
 Male labor force participation 63.88 2025 percent
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