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Italy: Self-employed, female

15.86percent · 2025-5.9% 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 Italy from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202515.864
202415.932
202315.922
202215.832
202115.683
202015.821
201916.063
201816.022
201716.071
201616.606
201516.86
201417.028
201317.011
201216.964
201117.061
201017.147
200916.879
200817.375
200717.799
200617.988
200518.114
200419.336
200318.7
200218.709
200119.009
200018.934
199918.98
199819.541
199719.733
199620.008
199520.264
199420.134
199320.286
199220.808
199119.415

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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