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Puerto Rico: Self-employed, male

16.65percent · 2025+5.1% 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 Puerto Rico from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202516.651
202416.695
202316.747
202216.734
202116.843
202017.278
201920.357
201822.847
201721.129
201618.475
201515.841
201417.663
201319.476
201221.209
201120.871
201019.975
200920.018
200819.947
200720.764
200620.405
200519.51
200419.376
200319.295
200219.803
200118.673
200019.306
199919.624
199818.256
199718.995
199618.991
199519.692
199419.842
199319.312
199219.313
199119.694

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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