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Canada: Self-employed, male

15.31percent · 2025-15.4% 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
202515.308
202415.472
202315.775
202216.105
202116.793
202017.857
201917.697
201817.988
201717.899
201618.159
201518.09
201418.258
201318.532
201218.752
201118.935
201019.398
200919.803
200819.136
200719.068
200618.807
200519.213
200419.057
200318.891
200218.396
200118.735
200019.347
199920.361
199820.42
199720.309
199619.49
199519.008
199418.901
199319.442
199218.891
199118.548

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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