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👷 Self-employed, female

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." i.e.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
96.8% – 74.0%73.7% – 41.0%40.4% – 23.4%23.3% – 9.9%9.9% – 1.2%No data
1
🇹🇩Chad
96.8%
2
🇳🇪Niger
95.4%
3
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
94.8%
4
🇦🇫Afghanistan
93.5%
5
🇲🇿Mozambique
91.3%
6
🇳🇵Nepal
90.8%
7
🇱🇷Liberia
90.7%
8
🇲🇬Madagascar
90.6%
9
🇧🇮Burundi
90.6%
10
🇹🇿Tanzania
90.6%
11
🇨🇩DR Congo
90.5%
12
🇨🇬Congo
90.1%
13
🇬🇳Guinea
89.9%
14
🇳🇬Nigeria
89.5%
15
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
88.9%
16
🇨🇫Central African Republic
88.3%
17
🇺🇬Uganda
87.9%
18
🇪🇹Ethiopia
86.7%
19
🇦🇴Angola
85.6%
20
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
85.5%
21
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
85.5%
22
🇹🇬Togo
85.1%
23
🇭🇹Haiti
85.0%
24
🇧🇯Benin
84.2%
25
🇧🇹Bhutan
82.3%
26
🇬🇲Gambia
82.3%
27
🇱🇦Laos
81.8%
28
🇲🇱Mali
81.6%
29
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
80.9%
30
🇿🇲Zambia
80.1%
31
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
79.8%
32
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
79.6%
33
🇮🇳India
78.8%
34
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
78.4%
35
🇨🇲Cameroon
78.1%
36
🇸🇳Senegal
76.2%
37
🇰🇪Kenya
74.0%
38
🇬🇭Ghana
73.7%
39
🇵🇰Pakistan
73.3%
40
🇲🇷Mauritania
71.9%
41
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
71.6%
42
🇧🇴Bolivia
69.7%
43
🇰🇲Comoros
69.5%
44
🇲🇼Malawi
67.4%
45
🇸🇴Somalia
66.4%
46
🇧🇩Bangladesh
65.3%
47
🇾🇪Yemen
65.2%
48
🇲🇲Myanmar
65.2%
49
🇰🇵North Korea
63.8%
50
🇻🇺Vanuatu
63.6%

Highlights

As of 2025, Chad ranks first with 96.8%, followed by Niger (95.4%) and Sierra Leone (94.8%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 96.8% (Chad) to 1.2% (Qatar), with a median of 31.5%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 8 from Africa and 2 from Asia.

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

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