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Barbados: Own-account workers, female

11.16percent · 2016-1.0% 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 Barbados from 1991 to 2016.

19912016

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201611.158
201511.141
201411.114
201311.139
201211.236
201111.319
201011.351
200911.437
200811.362
200711.309
200611.272
200511.447
20049.739
20038.38
20029.053
20018.892
20007.724
19999.004
19988.445
19977.897
19969.08
19959.22
19949.416
19939.508
19928.935
19917.733

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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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