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Nepal: Own-account workers, female

28.55percent · 2016+9.0% since 2006

Own-account workers are workers who, working on their own account or with one or more more partners, hold the types of jobs defined as "self-employment jobs" and have not engaged on a continuous basis any employees to work for them. Own account workers are a subcategory of "self-employed". Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Nepal from 1991 to 2016.

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Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201628.552
201528.993
201429.434
201328.596
201228.192
201127.993
201028.023
200927.693
200826.687
200726.152
200626.183
200526.115
200426.225
200326.626
200226.154
200170.612
200070.785
199970.769
199870.839
199771.199
199671.232
199571.042
199471.822
199370.971
199271.062
199170.999

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Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Own-account workers, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-own-account-workers-female (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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