World Bank · Labor

United States: Self-employed, female

3.81percent · 2025-3.0% 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 States from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20253.808
20243.866
20233.769
20223.883
20213.981
20203.694
20193.791
20183.886
20173.859
20163.906
20153.928
20143.911
20133.984
20124.057
20114.093
20104.209
20094.217
20084.117
20074.248
20064.352
20054.366
20044.427
20034.409
20024.227
20014.279
20004.298
19994.337
19984.496
19974.71
19964.777
19954.813
19944.934
19934.982
19924.909
19915.083

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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