The Countries With The Highest Self-Employment Rates

According to an OECD report, self-employment rates are generally higher in countries with lower income levels per capita. The report defines self-employmed people as employers, own-account workers, members of producers’ co-operatives and unpaid family workers. Greece has an impressive level of entrepreneurial flair with self-employment accounting for 35.4 percent of all employment. Turkey follows with 34 percent while Mexico comes third with 32.1 percent.

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This chart shows self-employment as a percentage of total employment in selected countries (2014 or latest year).

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Share of the national workforce in European countries that is in self-employment, by country and gender
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Share of the total workforce that is self-employed in selected European countries from 1995 to 2024
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Self-employment as a percentage of total employment in Africa as of 2019, by country
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Ranking of occupations with the highest percentage of self-employment in the United States in 2012
Number of self-employed workers in Europe in 2024, by country (in 1,000s)
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Self-employed workers as share of total employed population in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2012 to 2019

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