World Bank · Labor

Brazil: Self-employed, female

24.65percent · 2025+0.4% 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 Brazil from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202524.653
202424.861
202325.589
202226.928
202128.24
202026.98
201926.913
201826.496
201725.871
201624.778
201524.544
201423.76
201324.194
201224.122
201124.251
201025.663
200927.024
200828.098
200728.949
200630.105
200531.286
200430.544
200330.994
200231.357
200130.744
200030.107
199929.574
199829.138
199729.216
199628.514
199530.957
199431.002
199331.141
199231.147
199131.023

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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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 2026-11-07.

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