World Bank · Labor

Nigeria: Self-employed, female

89.52percent · 2025-1.6% 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 Nigeria from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202589.524
202489.799
202390.055
202290.445
202190.494
202090.879
201989.955
201890.216
201790.487
201690.774
201591.021
201491.295
201391.615
201291.929
201192.248
201092.621
200993.042
200893.367
200793.735
200694.099
200594.472
200494.867
200395.292
200295.698
200196.022
200096.232
199996.447
199896.614
199796.722
199696.865
199597.014
199497.179
199397.305
199297.445
199197.661

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

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