World Bank · Labor

Ireland: Self-employed, male

18.28percent · 2025-22.0% 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 Ireland from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202518.276
202418.37
202319.06
202219.335
202119.718
202020.347
201920.304
201821.228
201721.973
201623.069
201523.427
201424.151
201324.482
201224.504
201124.53
201025.061
200925.363
200823.841
200722.818
200622.773
200524.45
200425.211
200324.643
200225.272
200125.403
200026.216
199926.472
199827.784
199728.416
199628.627
199530.07
199430.576
199331.335
199232.124
199130.92

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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