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Ireland: Self-employed, female

7.81percent · 2025-4.7% 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 Ireland from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20257.814
20247.842
20238.306
20227.933
20217.732
20207.645
20197.478
20187.693
20177.748
20168.178
20158.201
20148.121
20138.297
20128.053
20117.974
20108.145
20098.225
20087.737
20077.575
20067.407
20057.745
20047.941
20038.121
20028.023
20018.312
20008.876
19998.761
19989.163
19979.036
19968.707
19959.206
19949.421
19939.768
19929.551
19919.726

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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