World Bank · Labor

Italy: Self-employed, male

24.96percent · 2025-16.1% 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 Italy from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202524.955
202425.13
202325.219
202225.472
202126.271
202027.41
201927.697
201828.016
201728.333
201629.186
201529.755
201430.186
201330.414
201230.523
201130.548
201030.814
200930.418
200830.846
200731.577
200631.886
200532.199
200433.433
200332.564
200232.73
200133.2
200033.533
199933.605
199833.801
199733.826
199633.988
199533.817
199433.142
199332.819
199233.106
199133.061

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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