World Bank · Labor

Malawi: Self-employed, female

67.38percent · 2025-1.1% 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 Malawi from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202567.384
202467.468
202367.542
202267.631
202167.512
202068.049
201967.763
201867.896
201768.011
201668.082
201568.158
201468.262
201368.382
201268.505
201168.621
201068.793
200968.957
200869.099
200769.262
200669.415
200569.541
200469.631
200369.698
200269.752
200169.775
200069.827
199969.966
199870.128
199770.344
199670.525
199570.735
199470.852
199370.768
199270.792
199170.898

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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