World Bank · Labor

Somalia: Self-employed, female

66.36percent · 2025-0.6% 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 Somalia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202566.361
202466.497
202366.627
202266.756
202166.589
202067.079
201965.93
201866.126
201766.357
201666.558
201566.778
201466.997
201367.221
201267.44
201167.688
201068.086
200968.452
200868.805
200769.142
200668.841
200569.017
200469.206
200369.404
200269.595
200169.73
200069.863
199969.98
199870.076
199770.159
199670.256
199570.301
199470.348
199370.433
199270.575
199170.795

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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