Gender split of those self-employed in the UK 2000 to 2017

The data displays a distribution of self-employed people in the UK from 2000 to 2017, broken down by gender. Over this 17 year period the number of self-employed workers has increased, the figures for men grew by 850,000; the number of self employed women grew by 690,000. In the most recent surveyed time period, the number of self-employed men amounted to 3.2 million, compared with 1.5 million self-employed women.