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United Arab Emirates: Self-employed, female

5.20percent · 2025+112.7% 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 United Arab Emirates from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20255.203
20245.361
20235.429
20224.191
20213.338
20203.885
20195.083
20183.608
20172.426
20162.486
20152.447
20142.223
20132.713
20122.742
20112.74
20102.893
20092.822
20082.594
20072.334
20062.111
20051.974
20041.995
20032.001
20021.946
20011.826
20001.767
19991.772
19981.723
19971.681
19961.71
19951.726
19941.719
19931.686
19921.631
19911.604

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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