World Bank · Labor

Puerto Rico: Self-employed, female

7.98percent · 2025+14.0% 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 Puerto Rico from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20257.977
20247.994
20238.005
20227.988
20217.898
20207.598
20198.766
20189.509
20178.832
20167.915
20156.994
20147.57
20138.131
20128.674
20118.344
20108.113
20097.997
20087.955
20078.295
20068.117
20057.782
20047.753
20037.669
20028.035
20017.263
20007.514
19997.622
19987.398
19977.947
19967.953
19958.091
19947.836
19938.024
19928.077
19918.213

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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