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Guinea-Bissau: Self-employed, female

85.46percent · 2025-1.4% 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 Guinea-Bissau from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202585.463
202485.619
202385.785
202285.953
202186.042
202086.374
201986.043
201886.226
201786.423
201686.57
201586.714
201486.814
201386.912
201287.035
201187.171
201087.311
200987.413
200887.511
200787.624
200687.72
200587.823
200487.906
200387.974
200288.075
200188.179
200088.266
199988.33
199888.374
199788.394
199688.584
199588.698
199488.78
199388.872
199288.967
199189.101

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 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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