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Iceland: Self-employed, female

8.72percent · 2025-12.6% 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 Iceland from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20258.722
20248.715
20239.822
202210.857
202110.864
20209.496
20199.945
201810.041
201710.017
201610.01
20159.98
20149.927
20139.93
20129.966
20119.691
20109.492
20099.197
20089.049
20078.956
20068.912
20058.977
20049.011
20038.835
20028.899
20018.934
20009.164
19999.143
19989.126
19979.206
19969.069
19959.613
199410.222
199310.734
199211.656
199112.007

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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