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Benin: Self-employed, female

84.19percent · 2025-5.7% 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 Benin from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202584.19
202484.631
202384.915
202285.194
202186.594
202087.947
201988.098
201888.407
201788.725
201689.026
201589.261
201489.436
201389.618
201289.798
201189.929
201090.05
200990.177
200890.309
200790.439
200690.56
200590.672
200490.804
200390.936
200291.083
200191.257
200091.425
199991.586
199891.723
199791.849
199691.982
199592.109
199492.209
199392.454
199292.558
199192.655

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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