World Bank · Labor

Sweden: Self-employed, male

13.77percent · 2025-11.0% 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 Sweden from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202513.768
202413.865
202313.961
202213.988
202114.47
202014.751
201914.704
201814.629
201714.834
201615.022
201515.462
201415.593
201316.019
201215.81
201115.797
201016.578
200916.222
200815.783
200716.142
200616.393
200516.181
200416.169
200316.042
200216.468
200116.377
200017.038
199917.572
199817.441
199718.116
199618.854
199518.915
199417.243
199316.813
199215.325
199114.196

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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