World Bank · Labor

Singapore: Self-employed, male

16.16percent · 2025-8.1% 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 Singapore from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202516.157
202416.319
202315.721
202216.576
202117.367
202017.772
201917.658
201817.582
201717.625
201617.641
201517.583
201418.008
201318.133
201218.608
201118.268
201017.954
200918.009
200818.641
200718.946
200618.585
200519.115
200419.586
200318.587
200218.889
200119.224
200019.255
199919.402
199818.274
199717.455
199618.736
199514.636
199417.32
199317.444
199217.104
199116.725

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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