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India: Own-account workers, male

67.43percent · 2016-4.1% since 2006

Own-account workers are workers who, working on their own account or with one or more more partners, hold the types of jobs defined as "self-employment jobs" and have not engaged on a continuous basis any employees to work for them. Own account workers are a subcategory of "self-employed". Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for India from 1991 to 2016.

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Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201667.425
201567.549
201467.618
201367.621
201267.807
201167.662
201069.718
200970.186
200870.426
200769.902
200670.323
200570.646
200470.912
200371.059
200271.305
200170.836
200068.875
199968.528
199868.174
199768.13
199667.517
199567.787
199467.006
199367.515
199267.486
199167.645

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World Bank (2026). Own-account workers, male. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-own-account-workers-male (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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