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Belgium: Self-employed, female

11.05percent · 2025+3.3% 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 Belgium from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202511.054
202411.116
202311.04
202211.397
202110.629
202010.872
201910.407
201810.385
201710.186
201610.402
201510.703
201410.451
201310.595
201210.09
201110.328
201010.38
200910.82
200810.445
200710.992
200611.392
200511.785
200411.3
200311.575
200212.109
200112.02
200012.618
199914.17
199813.211
199713.692
199614.277
199514.33
199413.828
199314.234
199214.507
199113.521

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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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 2026-11-07.

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