World Bank · Labor

Sierra Leone: Self-employed, female

94.77percent · 2025-0.2% 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 Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202594.767
202494.905
202395.042
202295.201
202195.236
202095.454
201994.837
201894.916
201794.941
201694.942
201594.958
201494.905
201395.147
201295.466
201195.669
201095.78
200995.908
200896.035
200796.19
200696.358
200596.509
200496.67
200396.844
200297.007
200197.114
200097.063
199997.109
199897.097
199797.067
199696.999
199596.945
199496.842
199396.765
199296.658
199196.513

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 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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