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Benin: Own-account workers, female

75.04percent · 2016-0.2% 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 Benin from 1991 to 2016.

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Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201675.04
201574.598
201473.063
201372.613
201273.892
201173.608
201075.356
200976.356
200876.417
200775.58
200675.193
200573.585
200473.733
200369.978
200271.203
200168.984
200069.762
199970.14
199886.026
199785.019
199684.882
199582.531
199481.697
199383.375
199282.918
199183.847

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Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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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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