• Share of self-employed people in Bolivia

In 2019, over 68 percent of the employed population in Bolivia was considered self-employed. Self-employment comprises jobs in which the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced or sold.

Bolivia currently holds the second highest rate of self-employed workers in Latin America and the Caribbean after Haiti.

Self-employed workers as share of total employed population in Bolivia from 2012 to 2019

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Release date

May 2021

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Region

Bolivia

Survey time period

2012 to 2019

Supplementary notes

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 “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.