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Bangladesh: Self-employed, female

65.30percent · 2025-10.4% 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 Bangladesh from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202565.296
202465.777
202366.131
202266.049
202166.212
202066.552
201966.435
201867.368
201768.402
201670.841
201572.859
201474.844
201376.784
201278.373
201179.86
201081.218
200982.791
200884.119
200785.397
200686.507
200586.923
200487.207
200387.458
200287.785
200188.104
200088.421
199988.735
199889.047
199789.367
199689.695
199590.036
199490.358
199390.66
199290.944
199191.198

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Self-employed, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-female (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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