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Malaysia: Self-employed, female

18.18percent · 2025-0.7% 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 Malaysia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202518.175
202418.245
202318.307
202218.363
202117.887
202017.973
201917.889
201817.997
201718.091
201618.189
201518.304
201418.397
201318.418
201218.429
201118.392
201018.45
200918.482
200818.623
200718.954
200619.29
200519.613
200419.929
200320.235
200220.512
200120.793
200021.104
199921.681
199822.053
199722.606
199623.176
199523.798
199424.508
199325.288
199226.112
199126.942

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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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 2026-11-07.

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