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Zambia: Self-employed, female

80.12percent · 2025-6.5% 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 Zambia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202580.122
202480.41
202380.655
202282.627
202182.66
202083.644
201983.392
201884.736
201785.075
201685.358
201585.686
201488.048
201390.286
201292.416
201192.322
201092.199
200993.076
200893.886
200793.987
200694.085
200594.191
200494.028
200393.899
200293.752
200193.602
200093.412
199993.407
199893.361
199793.318
199693.341
199593.348
199493.314
199393.334
199293.377
199193.447

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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