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Namibia: Self-employed, female

41.74percent · 2025+8.2% 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 Namibia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202541.737
202442.052
202342.361
202242.6
202142.199
202042.963
201942.864
201842.944
201739.263
201635.504
201538.588
201441.545
201345.246
201243.947
201144.256
201044.449
200945.108
200845.883
200746.692
200647.537
200548.429
200449.406
200350.265
200251.155
200152.02
200052.818
199953.598
199854.333
199755.02
199655.267
199555.479
199455.647
199355.684
199255.68
199155.564

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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