World Bank · Labor

Zimbabwe: Self-employed, female

78.36percent · 2025-0.4% 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 Zimbabwe from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202578.356
202478.483
202378.57
202278.723
202178.393
202078.48
201978.172
201878.263
201778.356
201678.565
201578.68
201478.844
201378.834
201278.886
201178.931
201079.03
200978.951
200878.604
200778.248
200677.92
200577.868
200477.667
200377.347
200276.98
200176.872
200076.881
199976.882
199876.945
199777.031
199677.164
199577.306
199477.446
199377.577
199277.612
199177.756

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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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 2026-11-05.

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