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Colombia: Self-employed, female

42.67percent · 2025-4.0% 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 Colombia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202542.668
202442.791
202343.111
202243.586
202143.767
202043.955
201943.201
201844.076
201744.174
201644.245
201544.438
201445.088
201346.529
201247.982
201148.095
201047.077
200947.37
200844.743
200740.956
200641.356
200539.969
200441.569
200341.455
200241.727
200141.763
200041.793
199941.922
199841.705
199742.102
199642.109
199541.963
199442.332
199341.844
199241.909
199141.954

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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