World Bank · Labor
Children in employment, self-employed
Self-employed workers are people whose remuneration depends directly on the profits derived from the goods and services they produce, with or without other employees, and include employers, own-account workers, and members of producers cooperatives.
- Coverage
- 58 of 238 countries
- Latest data
- 2016
- Series
- 58
- Unit
- percent
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-07
- Indicator
- children-in-employment-self-employed
- Interva ID
- worldbank-children-in-employment-self-employed
Recency
stale
data to 2016; catalog to 2025
Provenance
4 steps
as the publisher declares it
Versions
1
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.
Recency
0%Latest observation is 2016; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 9 year(s) behind (stale).
Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.
Temporal completeness
100%25 of 58 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.
Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.
Geographic coverage
MeasuredCovers 58 of the 238 countries in the catalog.
Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.
History depth
MeasuredThe median series has 1 observations; the earliest begins in 1999.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
MeasuredNo observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.
Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.
Schema conformity
Not assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.
2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.
By country
Children in employment, self-employed for each of the 58 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Albania 2010–2010
- Argentina 2004–2012
- Azerbaijan 2005–2005
- Bangladesh 2013–2013
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of 2009–2015
- Brazil 2011–2015
- Burkina Faso 2006–2006
- Cambodia 2009–2012
- Cameroon 2007–2007
- Colombia 2009–2015
- Costa Rica 2011–2016
- Dominican Republic 2009–2012
- Ecuador 2011–2015
- El Salvador 2011–2013
- Gambia 2015–2015
- Ghana 2012–2012
- Guatemala 2006–2015
- Guinea 2010–2010
- Honduras 2007–2014
- India 2010–2012
- Indonesia 2010–2010
- Jordan 2007–2016
- Kyrgyzstan 2007–2014
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 2010–2010
- Liberia 2010–2010
- Madagascar 2007–2007
- Malawi 2015–2015
- Mali 2007–2007
- Mexico 2011–2013
- Moldova, Republic of 2009–2009
- Mongolia 2007–2012
- Namibia 1999–1999
- Nepal 1999–2008
- Nicaragua 2005–2012
- Niger 2006–2009
- Pakistan 2011–2011
- Panama 2008–2014
- Paraguay 2005–2014
- Peru 2007–2007
- Philippines 2001–2011
- Romania 2000–2000
- Rwanda 2008–2011
- Senegal 2011–2011
- South Africa 1999–1999
- South Sudan 2008–2008
- Sri Lanka 2009–2009
- Sudan 2008–2008
- Tanzania, United Republic of 2006–2014
- Togo 2010–2010
- Trinidad and Tobago 2006–2006
- Türkiye 2006–2006
- Uganda 2006–2012
- Uruguay 2009–2009
- Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 2006–2013
- Viet Nam 2012–2012
- Yemen 2010–2010
- Zambia 2008–2008
- Zimbabwe 1999–1999
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Costa Rica | 2016 | 4.28 | percent |
| Jordan | 2016 | 5.22 | percent |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 2015 | 1.86 | percent |
| Brazil | 2015 | 8.78 | percent |
| Colombia | 2015 | 15.39 | percent |
| Ecuador | 2015 | 0.24 | percent |
| Gambia | 2015 | 4.53 | percent |
| Guatemala | 2015 | 2.26 | percent |
| Malawi | 2015 | 10.51 | percent |
| Brazil | 2014 | 4.99 | percent |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
International Labour Organization
Understanding Children's Work, International Labour Organization (ILO)
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
UNICEF
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), note: Understanding Children's Work
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
World Bank
World Bank (WB), note: Understanding Children's Work
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Read from
World Bank
World Development Indicators
declared by worldbank in source
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
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Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
World Bank (2026). Children in employment, self-employed. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-children-in-employment-self-employed (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.
@misc{interva-worldbank-children-in-employment-self-employed,
title = {Children in employment, self-employed},
author = {World Bank},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-children-in-employment-self-employed}},
note = {Interva dataset worldbank-children-in-employment-self-employed; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
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