World Bank · Labor

Kenya: Self-employed, female

74.05percent · 2025+1.4% 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 Kenya from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202574.047
202474.168
202374.478
202274.794
202175.146
202073.457
201971.285
201871.69
201772.112
201672.538
201573.036
201473.539
201374.041
201274.548
201175.059
201075.579
200976.068
200876.56
200777.073
200677.601
200578.082
200478.555
200379.02
200279.442
200179.881
200080.306
199980.767
199881.038
199781.275
199681.504
199581.723
199481.865
199382.026
199282.178
199182.39

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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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 2026-11-05.

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