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Germany: Self-employed, female

5.89percent · 2025-17.5% 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 Germany from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20255.886
20245.904
20235.997
20226.114
20216.259
20206.113
20196.457
20186.701
20176.939
20167.065
20157.134
20147.293
20137.423
20127.691
20117.859
20107.421
20097.689
20087.849
20078.293
20068.61
20058.613
20048.424
20037.874
20027.859
20018.01
20007.858
19997.842
19987.99
19977.984
19967.881
19958.006
19947.902
19937.856
19927.759
19917.628

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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