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Panama: Self-employed, female

37.23percent · 2025+16.4% 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 Panama from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202537.232
202437.155
202335.046
202241.824
202136.979
202037.682
201938.234
201836.981
201733.419
201634.808
201531.992
201430.585
201330.761
201229.961
201126.953
201031.495
200931.755
200825.458
200728.981
200630.155
200530.465
200430.668
200330.934
200230.804
200130.657
200030.478
199930.322
199830.275
199730.116
199630.178
199530.244
199430.32
199330.365
199230.474
199130.476

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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