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Botswana: Self-employed, female

28.13percent · 2025-6.7% 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 Botswana from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202528.126
202428.216
202328.342
202228.48
202128.196
202028.699
201929.373
201829.544
201729.732
201629.939
201530.141
201430.422
201330.665
201231.302
201131.971
201032.638
200933.184
200832.382
200731.307
200630.035
200528.932
200427.908
200326.985
200226.162
200125.392
200024.673
199924.111
199823.516
199722.868
199622.189
199522.335
199422.478
199322.607
199222.79
199123.113

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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