World Bank · Labor

Japan: Self-employed, female

7.52percent · 2025-19.3% 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 Japan from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20257.519
20247.725
20238.011
20227.951
20218.749
20208.119
20198.158
20188.437
20178.615
20168.921
20159.322
20149.836
20139.983
201210.27
201110.398
201010.834
200911.344
200811.814
200712.37
200612.894
200513.989
200414.494
200314.811
200215.23
200116.074
200017.005
199917.818
199818.228
199718.932
199619.345
199520.079
199420.503
199321.065
199222.614
199124.05

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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, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-female (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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