World Bank · Labor

China: Self-employed, male

39.57percent · 2025-7.6% 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
202539.573
202439.873
202340.19
202240.517
202141.174
202041.393
201941.326
201841.7
201742.078
201642.451
201542.834
201443.238
201343.667
201244.133
201144.643
201045.22
200945.844
200846.468
200747.145
200647.875
200548.514
200449.098
200349.663
200250.198
200150.705
200051.189
199951.661
199852.147
199752.689
199653.293
199553.946
199454.63
199355.312
199255.902
199156.378

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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