IntervaOpen the desk

World Bank · Labor

United Kingdom: Self-employed, male

16.16percent · 2025-15.1% 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 United Kingdom from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202516.156
202416.265
202316.352
202216.161
202116.572
202017.994
201918.804
201818.801
201719.235
201619.252
201519.033
201419.457
201318.619
201219.032
201118.52
201018.391
200918.067
200817.812
200717.792
200617.63
200517.481
200417.623
200317.442
200216.514
200116.408
200016.401
199917.047
199816.856
199717.567
199617.857
199518.427
199418.545
199318.061
199218.162
199118.435

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

The dataset for every country, with quality and provenance →

Cite or download

World Bank (2026). Self-employed, male. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-male (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

JSON, United KingdomAPI and MCP

Self-employed, male in other countries

Rank United Kingdom against its region, see where publishers disagree, or ask a question in plain words on the Interva desk.

United Kingdom: Self-employed, male (1991–2025) · Interva