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Lesotho: Own-account workers, female

48.10percent · 2016+0.7% since 2006

Own-account workers are workers who, working on their own account or with one or more more partners, hold the types of jobs defined as "self-employment jobs" and have not engaged on a continuous basis any employees to work for them. Own account workers are a subcategory of "self-employed". Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Lesotho from 1991 to 2016.

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Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201648.105
201547.79
201447.536
201347.94
201248.071
201148.029
201048.457
200948.549
200847.209
200747.48
200647.767
200548.555
200448.243
200349.566
200249.093
200149.241
200049.626
199950.215
199850.011
199749.459
199650.171
199550.257
199450.435
199348.654
199247.897
199148.888

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Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Own-account workers, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-own-account-workers-female (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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