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Iraq: Self-employed, female

37.29percent · 2025-5.4% 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 Iraq from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202537.293
202437.287
202337.281
202237.253
202137.011
202037.299
201936.99
201834.942
201735.415
201637.416
201539.412
201440.517
201337.012
201240.188
201140.459
201040.679
200940.847
200840.971
200741.045
200641.386
200541.628
200441.837
200342.112
200242.487
200143.121
200043.986
199944.946
199845.935
199746.779
199647.495
199548.059
199448.499
199348.724
199248.775
199148.692

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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