Balgarianovinite.com In 2025, Bulgaria had the EU’s second-lowest share of young entrepreneurs among self-employed people aged 20-64. At 5.3%, the percentage in Bulgaria was higher only compared to Ireland’s 5.1% and immediately below Spain’s 5.9%, the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) reported on its website on Tuesday.
The highest shares were in Slovakia (12.2%), Malta (10.5%) and Romania (10.3%).
Eurostat commented that as technology reshapes workplaces at an unprecedented pace, some young people are finding their own ways to make a living, turning to self-employment out of creativity and innovation or necessity.
In 2025, 2.06 million people aged 20-29 in the EU were self-employed, representing 7.9% of all self-employed people aged 20-64.
Overall, youth employment in the bloc has been increasing. In 2025, the employment rate of people aged 20-29 was 65.6%, up by 6.3 percentage points compared with 2015.
Bulgaria had the third-lowest youth employment rate in the EU in 2025, at 52.7%, ahead of Italy (47.6%) and Romania (52.0%), Eurostat reported. The Netherlands (84.0%) and Malta (82.1%) had the highest employment rates among people aged 20-29, followed by Germany (77.0%).
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