The Profile of Self Employed in the UK

Workplace Insight reports “in 2019, nearly 1 in 5 (19 percent) of the entire self-employed workforce is over 60. The number of over 60s who are self-employed increased from 579,000 in 2009 to 949,000 in 2019 – an increase of 64 percent. The total number of self-employed individuals has increased from 3.85 million to 4.92 million in the last 10 years. Of these 1.1 million increases, 820,000 is amongst those over 50 – nearly 4 in 5 of them or 77 percent.
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