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Australia: Self-employed, female

12.35percent · 2025+6.1% 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 Australia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202512.345
202412.382
202312.424
202212.539
202112.73
202012.479
201912.571
201812.117
201712.305
201612.358
201511.632
201411.575
201311.759
201212.236
201113.191
201011.536
200912.431
200811.488
200711.852
200613.131
200513.057
200414.976
200314.145
200214.878
200115.12
200015.284
199915.437
199815.497
199715.773
199615.856
199515.92
199416.034
199316.068
199216.024
199115.878

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Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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World Bank (2026). Self-employed, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-female (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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