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Nicaragua: Self-employed, female

49.09percent · 2025-2.6% 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 Nicaragua from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202549.09
202449.315
202349.553
202249.829
202149.594
202050.061
201949.448
201849.572
201749.784
201650.094
201550.385
201450.691
201350.931
201251.204
201151.502
201051.79
200952.01
200852.198
200752.541
200652.856
200553.191
200452.966
200352.64
200252.29
200152.016
200052.225
199952.386
199852.566
199752.668
199652.825
199552.984
199453.146
199353.284
199253.419
199153.499

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 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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