World Bank · Labor

Gambia: Self-employed, female

82.29percent · 2025-2.1% 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 Gambia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202582.285
202482.513
202382.742
202283.081
202183.273
202083.665
201982.48
201882.886
201783.321
201683.676
201584.026
201484.385
201384.67
201284.986
201185.186
201085.26
200985.501
200885.696
200785.836
200685.932
200585.998
200486.085
200386.271
200286.445
200186.546
200086.762
199986.958
199887.139
199787.288
199687.399
199587.525
199487.603
199387.672
199287.797
199187.919

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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