World Bank · Labor

Pakistan: Self-employed, female

73.33percent · 2025-2.1% 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 Pakistan from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202573.328
202473.802
202374.075
202274.419
202174.861
202076.494
201978.025
201871.353
201772.547
201673.681
201574.936
201473.268
201375.162
201275.435
201175.718
201076.431
200974.606
200874.386
200771.948
200670.121
200570.78
200474.512
200368.826
200269.061
200172.641
200072.645
199980.361
199880.535
199773.288
199680.322
199580.702
199479.779
199380.05
199280.979
199181.205

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Self-employed, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-female (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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