World Bank · Labor

Philippines: Self-employed, female

41.12percent · 2025-4.9% 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 Philippines from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202541.118
202441.421
202341.796
202242.125
202141.034
202041.624
201940.129
201840.518
201741.329
201642.865
201543.216
201444.791
201344.291
201245.577
201146.934
201047.146
200948.274
200848.839
200749.075
200649.997
200550.469
200449.322
200351.052
200252.205
200151.808
200051.938
199953.897
199853.457
199753.548
199653.848
199554.112
199454.178
199354.277
199254.357
199154.443

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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