Where in the world do people employ themselves?The <a href='http://www.cepr.net/'>Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> came out with a report comparing the prevlance of small businesses in industrialized countries. This graph shows the <b>percentage of total civilian employees that were <span style='color:#FBCA43'>self-employed in 2007</span></b>. The US is near the <a href='http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/35922880?limit_modifier=all&graph[limit]=22&commit=%3E'>bottom of this graph</a> at 7.2%. See <a href='http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1018969'>more data from the report</a> or the <a href='http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/small-business-2009-08.pdf'>entire report</a>.2946903.0Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:23:04 -0700Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:01:58 -0700seemaHorizontalBarGraphdefault% Self-employment Rate, Total Civilian Employment