World Bank · Labor

Hong Kong: Self-employed, male

10.88percent · 2025-13.0% 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 Hong Kong from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202510.883
202411.032
202311.831
202211.945
202111.829
202012.534
201912.148
201811.99
201712.12
201612.072
201512.506
201412.896
201314.427
201214.565
201114.181
201014.077
200914.303
200814.202
200714.446
200615.68
200515.499
200415.634
200316.094
200216.615
200115.236
200013.103
199913.315
199812.774
199712.547
199613.211
199512.996
199412.919
199313.587
199213.744
199113.959

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 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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