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👷 Employers, female

Employers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners, hold the type of jobs defined as a "self-employment jobs" i.e.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
15.6% – 3.1%3.1% – 2.3%2.3% – 1.6%1.6% – 0.9%0.9% – 0.1%No data
1
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
15.6%
2
🇩🇯Djibouti
14.6%
3
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
13.1%
4
🇳🇬Nigeria
10.4%
5
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
8.6%
6
🇹🇴Tonga
8.4%
7
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
8.3%
8
🇭🇳Honduras
7.2%
9
🇬🇭Ghana
6.8%
10
🇸🇴Somalia
6.2%
11
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
6.0%
12
🇨🇭Switzerland
5.3%
13
🇳🇦Namibia
5.2%
14
🇱🇸Lesotho
4.7%
15
🇦🇺Australia
4.6%
16
🇬🇷Greece
4.4%
17
🇺🇬Uganda
4.2%
18
🇭🇷Croatia
4.2%
19
🇦🇴Angola
4.1%
20
🇮🇹Italy
4.1%
21
🇳🇿New Zealand
4.1%
22
🇬🇾Guyana
4.0%
23
🇸🇷Suriname
4.0%
24
🇱🇾Libya
3.9%
25
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
3.4%
26
🇨🇫Central African Republic
3.3%
27
🇲🇦Morocco
3.3%
28
🇿🇦South Africa
3.3%
29
🇸🇻El Salvador
3.2%
30
🇬🇳Guinea
3.2%
31
🇹🇳Tunisia
3.2%
32
🇲🇾Malaysia
3.2%
33
🇨🇩DR Congo
3.2%
34
🇧🇬Bulgaria
3.2%
35
🇰🇷South Korea
3.2%
36
🇲🇽Mexico
3.1%
37
🇨🇺Cuba
3.1%
38
🇯🇲Jamaica
3.1%
39
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
3.1%
40
🇱🇻Latvia
3.0%
41
🇪🇸Spain
3.0%
42
🇧🇷Brazil
3.0%
43
🇫🇷France
3.0%
44
🇵🇹Portugal
3.0%
45
🇪🇷Eritrea
2.9%
46
🇵🇾Paraguay
2.8%
47
🇳🇮Nicaragua
2.8%
48
🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea
2.8%
49
🇧🇿Belize
2.8%
50
🇰🇭Cambodia
2.8%

Highlights

As of 2025, Timor-Leste ranks first with 15.6%, followed by Djibouti (14.6%) and Azerbaijan (13.1%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 15.6% (Timor-Leste) to 0.1% (Pakistan), with a median of 2.0%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Africa, 3 from Asia, 1 from the Americas and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employers, female (% of female employment) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employers, female (% of female employment) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026