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Panama: Own-account workers, female

23.93percent · 2016+16.0% 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 Panama from 1991 to 2016.

19912016

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201623.926
201523.897
201421.285
201320.558
201219.707
201118.247
201021.419
200923.743
200820.195
200719.581
200620.63
200520.801
200419.981
200319.439
200219.799
200115.994
200017.297
199919.193
199818.061
199716.728
199615.834
199515.266
199413.947
199312.291
199213.082
199113.038

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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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