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Canada: Self-employed, female

10.25percent · 2025-11.2% 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 Canada from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202510.25
202410.307
202310.303
202210.547
202110.874
202012.114
201911.561
201811.811
201711.485
201611.382
201511.546
201411.361
201311.482
201211.253
201111.326
201011.275
200911.639
200811.164
200711.208
200611.351
200511.481
200411.278
200311.397
200211.503
200111.178
200012.328
199912.901
199813.319
199713.211
199612.215
199511.612
199411.427
199311.189
199210.576
199110.048

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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