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Rwanda: Own-account workers, female

75.87percent · 2016-6.5% 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 Rwanda from 1991 to 2016.

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Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201675.872
201574.055
201474.783
201374.765
201274.81
201174.058
201074.72
200976.173
200874.611
200777.124
200681.106
200582.588
200485.106
200384.899
200276.333
200178.145
200077.342
199977.057
199882.043
199782.702
199666.238
199561.624
199468.284
199357.18
199249.777
199150.306

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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.

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