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Netherlands: Self-employed, male

20.41percent · 2025+9.2% 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
202520.409
202420.488
202320.474
202220.194
202119.452
202019.872
201918.284
201818.509
201718.509
201618.657
201518.692
201418.62
201318.41
201217.205
201116.951
201016.557
200917.216
200816.495
200716.172
200615.896
200515.411
200413.378
200312.479
200212.725
200112.395
200012.138
199912.131
199812.29
199713.108
199612.984
199513.364
199412.966
199311.946
199211.591
199111.033

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 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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