World Bank · Labor

United Kingdom: Self-employed, female

9.89percent · 2025-5.0% 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 United Kingdom from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20259.886
20249.905
202310.203
202210.192
202110.36
202010.737
201910.848
201810.939
201711.008
201610.759
201510.408
201410.501
20139.696
20129.7
20119.27
20109.034
20098.552
20088.173
20078.239
20068.117
20057.787
20047.851
20037.772
20027.457
20017.347
20007.443
19997.535
19987.534
19977.761
19967.824
19958.049
19948.057
19937.963
19928.07
19918.154

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, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-female (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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