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Sri Lanka: Self-employed, female

40.35percent · 2025-10.7% 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 Sri Lanka from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202540.354
202440.5
202340.425
202240.106
202141.485
202041.136
201941.837
201842.377
201744.552
201644.399
201545.166
201444.578
201345.336
201244.085
201146.856
201047.612
200948.263
200848.422
200747.836
200648.361
200544.47
200442.061
200343.556
200244.026
200142.527
200047.286
199945.644
199847.373
199740.869
199641.126
199541.3
199441.267
199341
199241.381
199141.464

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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