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Timor-Leste: Self-employed, female

79.76percent · 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 Timor-Leste from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202579.764
202480.145
202380.453
202280.234
202180.267
202080.719
201980.137
201880.442
201780.384
201680.313
201580.249
201480.298
201380.29
201280.377
201180.468
201080.65
200980.809
200880.985
200781.159
200681.218
200581.184
200481.097
200380.919
200280.761
200180.792
200080.996
199981.247
199881.487
199781.677
199682.058
199582.492
199482.933
199383.376
199283.862
199184.295

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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