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Rwanda: Self-employed, female

44.05percent · 2025-10.2% 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 Rwanda from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202544.05
202444.661
202344.968
202243.354
202142.39
202048.727
201947.135
201848.182
201748.324
201648.844
201549.074
201449.361
201349.606
201249.873
201150.155
201050.461
200950.746
200851.02
200751.313
200651.581
200551.882
200452.196
200352.53
200252.89
200153.388
200053.84
199954.184
199854.47
199754.711
199654.907
199555.191
199455.329
199355.652
199255.787
199155.854

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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