World Bank · Gender

Peru: Own-account workers, female

34.97percent · 2016+6.9% 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 Peru from 1991 to 2016.

19912016

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201634.965
201534.53
201435.273
201334.825
201234.507
201134.795
201035.099
200934.897
200834.884
200734.047
200632.701
200533.16
200432.915
200333.028
200232.818
200133.152
200032.864
199932.915
199833.05
199732.418
199632.593
199532.213
199431.459
199332.208
199234.255
199134.09

Source

Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

The dataset for every country, with quality and provenance →

Cite or download

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.

CSV, all countriesJSON, PeruAPI and MCP

Own-account workers, female in other countries

Rank Peru against its region, see where publishers disagree, or ask a question in plain words on the Interva desk.

Peru: Own-account workers, female (1991–2016) · Interva