World Bank · Gender

Canada: Own-account workers, male

12.07percent · 2016+5.1% since 2006

Own-account workers are workers who, working on their own account or with one or more more partners, hold the types of jobs defined as "self-employment jobs" and have not engaged on a continuous basis any employees to work for them. Own account workers are a subcategory of "self-employed". Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Canada from 1991 to 2016.

19912016

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201612.075
201511.816
201412.03
201312.008
201212.181
201112.228
201012.492
200912.622
200812.046
200711.978
200611.484
200511.701
200411.678
200311.692
200211.254
200111.333
200011.709
199912.259
199812.257
199711.825
199610.786
199510.024
19949.984
19939.892
19929.482
19919.071

Source

Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

The dataset for every country, with quality and provenance →

Cite or download

World Bank (2026). Own-account workers, male. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-own-account-workers-male (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

CSV, all countriesJSON, CanadaAPI and MCP

Own-account workers, male in other countries

Rank Canada against its region, see where publishers disagree, or ask a question in plain words on the Interva desk.

Canada: Own-account workers, male (1991–2016) · Interva