World Bank · Labor

Egypt: Self-employed, female

30.32percent · 2025-14.6% 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 Egypt from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202530.322
202430.677
202331.192
202231.103
202133.387
202031.328
201934.924
201837.205
201738.106
201635.113
201535.501
201434.768
201334.311
201229.531
201133.122
201032.431
200937.656
200839.574
200739.791
200636.354
200537.905
200442.054
200335.997
200232.188
200129.875
200034.51
199933.635
199835.467
199737.831
199639.022
199540.542
199441.599
199342.041
199241.378
199142.279

Source

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

The dataset for every country, with quality and provenance →

Cite or download

World Bank (2026). Self-employed, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-female (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

CSV, all countriesJSON, EgyptAPI and MCP

Self-employed, female in other countries

Rank Egypt against its region, see where publishers disagree, or ask a question in plain words on the Interva desk.

Egypt: Self-employed, female (1991–2025) · Interva