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Portugal: Self-employed, female

11.32percent · 2025-8.5% 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 Portugal from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202511.316
202411.343
202311.642
202211.88
202111.876
202011.658
201911.642
201811.315
201711.517
201611.945
201512.372
201413.123
201314.641
201214.725
201114.436
201015.855
200916.453
200816.741
200717.128
200617.261
200518.028
200418.136
200318.94
200219.344
200120.02
200019.402
199919.348
199820.18
199719.091
199618.755
199518.476
199418.355
199317.366
199216.988
199118.567

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Self-employed, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-female (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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