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Australia: Own-account workers, female

8.15percent · 2016+0.4% since 2006

Own-account workers are workers who, working on their own account or with one or more more partners, hold the types of jobs defined as "self-employment jobs" and have not engaged on a continuous basis any employees to work for them. Own account workers are a subcategory of "self-employed". Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Australia from 1991 to 2016.

19912016

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20168.146
20157.97
20148.019
20137.654
20128.032
20118.1
20108.221
20098.172
20088.132
20077.945
20068.115
20058.536
20048.254
20038.39
20028.619
20018.257
20008.103
19998
19988.299
19978.78
19968.342
19958.415
19948.568
19938.848
19928.669
19918.677

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Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Own-account workers, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-own-account-workers-female (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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