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Bulgaria: Self-employed, male

14.33percent · 2025-6.4% 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
202514.333
202414.451
202314.424
202214.08
202113.728
202013.095
201914.151
201814.868
201714.765
201614.51
201515.313
201415.89
201314.758
201214.6
201114.942
201015.823
200915.117
200814.997
200715.229
200616.049
200517.221
200419.36
200319.639
200219.058
200119.536
200020.546
199920.447
199820.203
199720.341
199620.289
199520.566
199420.643
199320.574
199220.375
199120.11

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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, male. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-male (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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