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Ethiopia: Self-employed, female

86.67percent · 2025-3.6% 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 Ethiopia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202586.671
202486.992
202387.292
202287.569
202187.852
202088.253
201988.018
201888.43
201788.878
201689.356
201589.863
201490.381
201390.908
201291.198
201191.501
201091.826
200992.147
200892.446
200792.743
200693.003
200593.217
200493.01
200392.813
200292.522
200192.316
200092.132
199991.886
199891.887
199791.897
199691.986
199592.084
199492.105
199392.079
199292.013
199191.799

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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