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Maldives: Self-employed, female

31.54percent · 2025-10.1% 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 Maldives from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202531.544
202431.911
202332.268
202232.588
202132.167
202032.452
201932.902
201833.364
201733.973
201634.751
201535.076
201435.41
201337.16
201238.866
201140.514
201042.039
200943.458
200843.917
200744.152
200644.328
200544.538
200445.011
200345.318
200245.565
200145.865
200046.256
199946.724
199847.17
199747.646
199648.149
199548.722
199449.324
199350.013
199250.747
199151.469

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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