World Bank · Labor

Yemen: Self-employed, female

65.19percent · 2025-2.9% 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 Yemen from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202565.194
202465.551
202365.895
202266.229
202165.817
202066.711
201966.577
201866.742
201766.888
201667.021
201567.143
201467.225
201366.85
201266.376
201165.873
201065.503
200965.249
200864.951
200764.764
200664.553
200564.369
200464.21
200364.053
200263.886
200163.703
200063.493
199963.385
199864.058
199764.542
199665.158
199565.851
199466.524
199366.898
199267.202
199167.562

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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 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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