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Saudi Arabia: Self-employed, female

6.79percent · 2025+397.9% 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 Saudi Arabia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20256.791
20246.864
20235.603
20226.656
20217.388
20206.116
20195.684
20181.52
20171.302
20161.344
20151.364
20141.412
20131.523
20121.638
20111.781
20101.928
20092.038
20082.089
20072.18
20062.243
20052.303
20042.359
20032.384
20022.386
20012.356
20002.327
19992.319
19982.277
19972.228
19962.192
19952.158
19942.124
19932.096
19922.075
19912.048

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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