| Characteristic | Share of employed population |
|---|---|
| Bolivia | 66.93% |
| Peru | 52.6% |
| Ecuador | 50.65% |
| Colombia | 46.55% |
| Dominican Republic | 42.37% |
| Paraguay | 41.32% |
| Guatemala | 39.54% |
| Panama | 38.92% |
| Jamaica* | 37.26% |
| El Salvador | 36.34% |
| Honduras | 36.08% |
| Belize** | 35.21% |
| Guyana** | 33.67% |
| Mexico | 31.35% |
| Brazil | 31.23% |
| Uruguay | 29.25% |
| Costa Rica | 28.01% |
| Argentina | 25.75% |
| Trinidad and Tobago* | 25.71% |
| Chile | 24.65% |
| Barbados** | 19.5% |
| Bahamas | 16.51% |
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Latin America and the Caribbean
2023 or latest available data
*Data as of 2022.
**Data as of 2019.
According to the source, 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", which are commonly characterized as jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced. Self-employed workers comprise four sub-categories: employers, own-account workers, members of producers' cooperatives, and contributing family workers.
The figures are calculated from the total employed population. Self-employment status does not include employees (workers who hold the type of jobs defined as 鈥減aid employment jobs鈥, where the incumbents hold employment contracts that give them a basic remuneration), workers not classifiable by status, unemployed or non-economically active population.
