# EU countries by self-employed workers, 2025

All 27 values come from World Bank for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `self_employed_share`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Employers, own-account workers, members of producers' cooperatives and contributing family workers, whose pay depends directly on the profits of what they produce, as a percentage of total employment. ILO modelled estimates, ages 15 and over.
- Source: World Bank, Self-employed, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) (SL.EMP.SELF.ZS) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.EMP.SELF.ZS)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/world-bank
- Retrieved: 2026-10-18
- Citation: World Bank, World Development Indicators, modelled estimate. Self-employed, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) (SL.EMP.SELF.ZS). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.EMP.SELF.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-18. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/self-employed-share/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Greece | 30.5 |
| 2 | Italy | 21.1 |
| 3 | Poland | 18.9 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 16.8 |
| 5 | Czechia | 15.7 |
| 6 | Slovakia | 14.9 |
| 7 | Belgium | 14.6 |
| 8 | Spain | 14.5 |
| 9 | Romania | 14.5 |
| 10 | Portugal | 14.4 |
| 11 | Slovenia | 14 |
| 12 | Malta | 13.9 |
| 13 | Latvia | 13.7 |
| 14 | Ireland | 13.4 |
| 15 | France | 13.3 |
| 16 | Croatia | 12.7 |
| 17 | Finland | 12.5 |
| 18 | Austria | 12.2 |
| 19 | Estonia | 12.1 |
| 20 | Bulgaria | 11.8 |
| 21 | Hungary | 11.6 |
| 22 | Lithuania | 11.5 |
| 23 | Luxembourg | 10.3 |
| 24 | Sweden | 10.2 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 10.2 |
| 26 | Germany | 8.1 |
| 27 | Denmark | 7.9 |