World Bank · Labor

China: Self-employed, female

35.40percent · 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 China from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202535.401
202435.878
202336.371
202236.871
202136.973
202037.295
201937.431
201838.012
201738.61
201639.233
201539.884
201440.566
201341.279
201242.028
201142.817
201043.642
200944.499
200845.396
200746.318
200647.234
200548.152
200449.061
200349.951
200250.799
200151.612
200052.377
199953.085
199853.78
199754.47
199655.158
199555.861
199456.572
199357.281
199257.978
199158.655

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

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