World Bank · Labor

Uganda: Self-employed, female

87.93percent · 2025+2.8% 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 Uganda from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202587.926
202488.045
202388.246
202288.418
202188.563
202088.087
201987.192
201886.442
201785.647
201685.572
201585.511
201485.53
201385.515
201285.926
201185.891
201086.145
200986.389
200886.567
200786.799
200687.032
200587.235
200487.441
200387.648
200287.825
200188.006
200088.17
199988.349
199888.557
199788.755
199688.984
199589.221
199489.429
199389.603
199289.764
199189.909

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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