OECD-EU Missing Entrepreneurs 2023

#MissingEntrepreneurs There would be

+34.1M

more entrepreneurs in the OECD

+7.5M

more entrepreneurs in the EU

if everyone was as active in business creation as 30-49 year-old men.

The gender gap in self-employment is closing... slowly In the EU, men are... 1.84x 2013

1.76x 2019

2022

1.72x

... more likely to be self-employed than women.

Young people have high hopes for entrepreneurship, but few are doing it

39% of youth

prefer being self-employed, but only EU

OECD

9%

5% of youth work in startups.

The share of immigrant entrepreneurs in the EU is rising fast

8% 5%

4%

2% 2013 Born outside EU

2023 Born in a EU member state

Workers with disabilities are as likely to be self-employed

7

26

In out of European OECD countries, people with disabilities are more likely to be self-employed than other people.

Few job seekers become self-employed but some create additional jobs in their first year

3% of job seekers in the

EU become self-employed in the following year.

10%

Of these, create at least one additional job.

Seniors are active in self employment, reflecting the ageing of business owners...

But people over 50 are

60

as likely as other people to be creating new businesses.

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