Afghanistan vs Lower middle income: Self-employed, total (% of total employment)
Self-employed, total (% of total employment) over time
- Afghanistan
- Lower middle income
How they compare
Afghanistan currently reports 83.4% against 70.4% in Lower middle income, a difference of 13.0%.
That makes Afghanistan's figure about 1.2 times Lower middle income's.
Across all 35 years both countries report, Afghanistan has been ahead every year.
Afghanistan ranks 12th and Lower middle income ranks 15th of 187 countries.
Afghanistan has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Afghanistan | Lower middle income | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 95.4% | 79.4% | 16.1% | Afghanistan |
| 2000s | 93.6% | 77.1% | 16.4% | Afghanistan |
| 2010s | 86.3% | 73.2% | 13.2% | Afghanistan |
| 2020s | 83.2% | 71.1% | 12.1% | Afghanistan |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher self-employed, total (% of total employment), Afghanistan or Lower middle income?
- Afghanistan, at 83.4% against 70.4% in Lower middle income as of 2025.
- What is the difference in self-employed, total (% of total employment) between Afghanistan and Lower middle income?
- 13.0%, with Afghanistan ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Afghanistan and Lower middle income?
- 35 years are reported by both, from 1991 to 2025.
- How do Afghanistan and Lower middle income rank globally for self-employed, total (% of total employment)?
- Afghanistan ranks 12th and Lower middle income ranks 15th of 187 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST), International Labour Organization (ILO), published as Self-employed, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
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.