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Lesotho: Self-employed, female

33.62percent · 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 Lesotho from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202533.617
202433.875
202334.098
202234.194
202134.033
202034.738
201934.746
201834.902
201735.124
201635.388
201535.739
201436.02
201336.307
201236.602
201136.939
201037.259
200937.506
200837.684
200738.067
200638.437
200538.831
200439.183
200339.506
200239.806
200140.099
200040.488
199940.829
199841.142
199741.491
199641.802
199542.216
199442.568
199342.968
199243.368
199143.835

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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