World Bank · Labor

Brazil: Self-employed, male

34.50percent · 2025-0.8% 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 Brazil from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202534.504
202434.701
202335.396
202235.944
202137.242
202036.398
201936.12
201835.848
201735.6
201635.251
201534.784
201433.307
201333.145
201232.862
201133.04
201033.449
200933.855
200833.946
200735.101
200636.232
200536.708
200436.993
200337.639
200237.333
200137.463
200038.138
199938.776
199838.013
199737.72
199636.886
199537.708
199437.77
199337.894
199237.729
199137.346

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, male. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-male (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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