How many people own their own home business?

1 in every 153,700.00 people own their own businesses. However 96.2% work for someone else hence being known as an employee. Individuals that own their own business are considered to be in an elite class of citizen. Statistics show that almost all small businesses fail within the first three years. Only 6.9% of all business succeed after three years and only 1.7% of all small business succeed after ten years. Small business ownership in America is reserved for only a select small group of highly intelligent and highly motivated people. Statistics from the US Corporations of America.