World Bank · Labor

Barbados: Self-employed, female

13.23percent · 2025+15.7% 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 Barbados from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202513.233
202413.371
202313.471
202214.897
202113.505
202013.945
201914.435
201813.713
201712.733
201611.403
201511.433
201411.963
201312.482
201212.16
201111.856
201011.637
200911.331
200811.012
200710.818
200610.59
200510.417
200410.293
20038.936
20029.345
20019.27
20008.032
19999.361
19989.064
19978.308
19969.606
19959.606
19949.763
199310.117
19929.215
19918.642

Source

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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