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Share of female sole proprietors

Share of female sole proprietors is the proportion of female newly registered sole proprietors out of the total number of newly registered sole proprietors in the economy in the calendar year. A sole proprietorship is a business entity owned and managed by a single individual who is indistinguishable from the business and personally liable.

Coverage
92 of 251 countries
Latest data
2024
Series
92
Unit
percent
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-08
Indicator
share-of-female-sole-proprietors
Interva ID
worldbank-share-of-female-sole-proprietors

Recency

current

data to 2024; catalog to 2025

Provenance

2 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

100%

Latest observation is 2024; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 1 year(s) behind (current).

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%

2 of 92 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

Measured

Covers 92 of the 251 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

Measured

The median series has 10 observations; the earliest begins in 2014.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No 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 assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-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 2026-11-15.

By country

Share of female sole proprietors for each of the 92 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Angola202432.70percent
Azerbaijan202419.09percent
Bahrain202450.32percent
Belize202446.27percent
Benin202439.93percent
Burkina Faso202420.77percent
Burundi202429.00percent
Cambodia202435.83percent
China202441.48percent
Colombia202452.12percent

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim

    World Bank's Entrepreneurship Survey and database (https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/entrepreneurship). Downloaded on May 2, 2026.

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    Gender Statistics

    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 2026-11-08. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Bank (2026). Share of female sole proprietors. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-share-of-female-sole-proprietors (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-share-of-female-sole-proprietors,
  title        = {Share of female sole proprietors},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-share-of-female-sole-proprietors}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-share-of-female-sole-proprietors; catalog snapshot 2026-11-08},
  urldate      = {2026-11-15}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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