Self-employed 1991 - 2022

Description	% of total employment; modeled ILO estimate. 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 four sub-categories of employers, own-account workers, members of producers' cooperatives, and contributing family workers.
Unit of measure	%

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% of total employment; modeled ILO estimate. 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 four sub-categories of employers, own-account workers, members of producers' cooperatives, and contributing family workers.

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Source: International Labour Office

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	China
1991	69.8
1992	68.6
1993	67.4
1994	66.4
1995	65.5
1996	64.6
1997	63.8
1998	63.1
1999	62.6
2000	61.9
2001	61.2
2002	60.4
2003	59.4
2004	58.3
2005	57.2
2006	56.2
2007	55.1
2008	54.0
2009	53.1
2010	52.1
2011	51.2
2012	50.4
2013	49.8
2014	49.2
2015	48.7
2016	48.3
2017	47.7
2018	47.0
2019	46.4
2020	46.5
2021	46.2
2022	45.8

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Self-employed 1991 - 2022

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