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Kuwait: Self-employed, female

1.38percent · 2025+220.1% 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 Kuwait from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20251.383
20241.336
20231.304
20221.3
20211.1
20200.909
20191.004
20180.92
20170.745
20160.713
20150.432
20140.423
20130.415
20120.409
20110.408
20100.416
20090.417
20080.4
20070.448
20060.49
20050.553
20040.575
20030.635
20020.735
20010.855
20000.984
19991.018
19981.058
19971.247
19961.427
19951.587
19941.838
19932.156
19922.415
19912.531

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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