World Bank · Labor

Ghana: Self-employed, female

73.66percent · 2025-12.2% 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 Ghana from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202573.665
202474.074
202374.373
202274.645
202174.941
202076.616
201977.085
201878.83
201780.57
201682.274
201583.887
201484.264
201384.692
201285.112
201185.549
201085.997
200986.219
200886.45
200786.706
200686.942
200587.218
200487.486
200387.747
200288.006
200188.27
200088.543
199989.437
199890.289
199791.074
199691.626
199592.145
199492.648
199393.14
199293.692
199194.127

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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