World Bank · Labor

Germany: Self-employed, male

10.13percent · 2025-26.6% 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 Germany from 1991 to 2025.