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Netherlands: Self-employed, female

12.71percent · 2025+19.1% 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 Netherlands from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202512.715
202412.715
202312.637
202212.661
202111.704
202011.402
201910.468
201810.524
201710.442
201610.606
201510.675
201410.461
201310.302
20129.753
20119.659
20109.632
20099.615
20089.365
20079.241
20069.201
20058.935
20047.923
20037.498
20027.796
20017.863
20007.903
19997.977
19988.1
19978.671
19968.524
19959.02
19948.86
19938.707
19928.288
19919.181

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

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