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Brazil: Own-account workers, female

18.96percent · 2016+9.4% 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 Brazil from 1991 to 2016.

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Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201618.957
201518.061
201417.266
201317.343
201217.405
201116.402
201016.478
200917.068
200816.939
200717.388
200617.331
200517.518
200422.874
200323.306
200223.169
200122.804
200016.919
199916.979
199816.952
199716.92
199624.263
199526.361
199425.517
199326.195
199226.433
199126.165

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Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Own-account workers, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-own-account-workers-female (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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