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Bulgaria: Self-employed, female

8.92percent · 2025+0.6% since 2015

Self-employed workers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners or in cooperative, hold the type of jobs defined as a "self-employment jobs." i.e. jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced. Self-employed workers include sub-categories of employers, own-account workers and members of producers' cooperatives and contributing family workers. Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Bulgaria from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20258.924
20249.09
20239.239
20228.761
20218.332
20207.987
20198.347
20188.686
20178.589
20168.16
20158.875
20149.202
20138.346
20128.252
20118.791
20109.259
20099.084
20089.104
20079.142
20069.766
200510.821
200412.467
200312.301
200211.723
200111.562
200012.548
199912.513
199812.43
199712.424
199612.467
199512.505
199412.426
199312.294
199212.102
199111.933

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Self-employed, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-female (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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