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Mauritania: Self-employed, female

71.87percent · 2025-0.3% 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 Mauritania from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202571.871
202472.205
202372.519
202272.872
202172.553
202073.013
201972.41
201872.725
201772.996
201672.493
201572.067
201471.5
201370.847
201270.36
201170.548
201070.885
200971.198
200871.4
200771.771
200672.161
200572.749
200473.117
200373.41
200273.627
200173.837
200074.009
199974.191
199874.433
199774.672
199674.972
199575.242
199475.421
199375.552
199275.77
199175.917

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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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