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Nepal: Self-employed, female

90.83percent · 2025-2.2% 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 Nepal from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202590.833
202491.06
202391.275
202291.471
202191.58
202091.807
201992.022
201892.161
201792.388
201692.618
201592.85
201493.093
201393.337
201293.577
201193.816
201094.038
200994.246
200894.437
200794.617
200694.775
200594.921
200495.054
200395.178
200295.294
200195.405
200095.536
199995.662
199895.775
199795.884
199695.989
199596.086
199496.182
199396.277
199296.368
199196.471

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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