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Portugal: Self-employed, male

17.49percent · 2025-19.5% 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 Portugal from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202517.487
202417.649
202318.037
202218.374
202119.222
202019.547
201919.671
201819.512
201719.933
201620.903
201521.709
201423.475
201326.247
201226.504
201125.622
201027.251
200928.417
200828.551
200729.02
200628.703
200530.143
200430.499
200332.007
200231.942
200131.996
200031.451
199932.357
199834.129
199733.479
199633.667
199532.697
199431.976
199330.061
199229.839
199131.279

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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