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Botswana: Own-account workers, female

12.31percent · 2016+29.0% 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 Botswana from 1991 to 2016.

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Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201612.313
201511.422
201410.634
201311.033
201211.494
201110.549
201011.749
200912.377
200810.9
20079.895
20069.544
20059.427
200410.221
20038.595
20028.024
20017.626
20007.054
199921.615
199821.198
199721.375
199621.427
199522.732
199427.063
199326.365
199225.832
199124.642

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World Bank (2026). Own-account workers, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-own-account-workers-female (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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