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Sweden: Self-employed, female

6.34percent · 2025+1.7% 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 Sweden from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20256.338
20246.355
20236.432
20226.455
20216.338
20206.213
20196.147
20185.989
20176.068
20166.16
20156.234
20146.237
20136.289
20126.229
20116.125
20106.351
20096.277
20086.103
20076.119
20066.067
20056.08
20046.018
20035.928
20026.096
20016.154
20006.324
19996.522
19986.48
19976.531
19966.769
19956.758
19946.257
19936.088
19925.63
19915.35

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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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