According to ILO, 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.
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Barbados: share of self-employed workers 2012-2024
In 2019, approximately **** percent of Barbadians who were employed were considered self-employed, or having a job whose remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services provided. The share of self-employed workers in the country has remained generally similar since 2012. Barbados is among the Latin American and Caribbean countries with the lowest rates of self-employment.
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ILO. (May 26, 2021). Self-employed workers as share of total employed population in Barbados from 2012 to 2024 [Graph]. In 糖心破解版. Retrieved July 18, 2026, from /statistics/1038978/share-self-employed-workers-barbados/
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