Bolivia was the country with the highest share of self-employed workers in Latin America and the Caribbean, followed by Peru. In 2023, nearly 67 percent of Bolivians who were employed had a self-employment job (a job where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced).
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 “paid employment jobs”, 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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ILO. (September 10, 2024). Self-employed workers as share of total employed population in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, by country [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 05, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1036341/share-self-employed-workers-latin-america-country/
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