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India: Own-account workers, female

54.68percent · 2016+8.2% since 2006

Own-account workers are workers who, working on their own account or with one or more more partners, hold the types of jobs defined as "self-employment jobs" and have not engaged on a continuous basis any employees to work for them. Own account workers are a subcategory of "self-employed". Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for India from 1991 to 2016.

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Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201654.678
201553.9
201453.091
201352.292
201251.151
201150.749
201055.111
200953.174
200851.589
200751.969
200650.52
200549.484
200448.141
200348.004
200246.525
200147.575
200056.817
199957.695
199857.098
199756.222
199656.884
199555.311
199457.049
199356.26
199255.834
199155.258

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Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Own-account workers, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-own-account-workers-female (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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