World Bank · Labor

Afghanistan: Self-employed, female

93.51percent · 2025-0.3% since 2015

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. jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced. Self-employed workers include sub-categories of employers, own-account workers and members of producers' cooperatives and contributing family workers. Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Afghanistan from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202593.507
202493.586
202393.567
202293.512
202191.515
202092.395
201992.285
201892.079
201791.903
201692.956
201593.762
201494.54
201395.287
201296.01
201196.626
201097.198
200997.747
200898.21
200798.382
200698.537
200598.659
200498.767
200398.846
200298.923
200198.988
200099.009
199999.063
199899.111
199799.153
199699.188
199599.209
199499.212
199399.198
199299.193
199199.18

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Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Self-employed, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-female (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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