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The total number of self-employed (paid and unpaid) marked a significant decrease after the Covid 19 crisis during 2021.
INSTAT reported that last year the self-employed fell by about 14,500 people or about 3.5 percent compared to 2020 where the country was hit by the unusual Covid-19 crisis.
Self-employment is quite widespread in our country, with one of the highest rates in Europe, but for years it has entered a crisis of changing the structure of the economy where retail and service providers are concentrating in shopping malls, supermarkets and lines. specialist competing individual sales and service units in the neighborhood.
According to INSTAT data, at the end of 2021 almost 32% of employees in the country were self-employed.
Other Eurostat data show that Albania has the highest self-employment rate in Europe and more than double compared to the European Union average of 13.3% at the end of 2020.
Most of the self-employed in the country have low education. According to INSTAT, almost 41% of employees with 8/9 years of education earn a living through self-employment.
Even those with secondary education tend to open their own businesses, with self-employment accounting for 34% of this category.
It is different for people with higher education, who seem to find it easier to find a job in businesses that they have not opened themselves. Only 12% of employees with higher education are self-employed.
Men are more likely to start a business, with 38% of them being self-employed, versus 25% of women.
According to age groups, the highest percentage of self-employment results in persons who are over 65 years old (60%) and the lowest for young people up to 24 years old (20%)
In the last four years since the beginning of a strict formalization process on this category and the inclusion in the VAT scheme for some of them survival has become more difficult.
In recent years, the number of self-employed is rapidly declining also as a result of changing the structure of the economy, where retail sales are moving towards more specialized units.
Self-employment is dominated by the trade and services sector, for years it has been the promoter of employment in the country, as the centralized economy collapsed to orient itself towards the market.
But in recent years, the advancement of supermarkets and shopping malls, along with anti-informality actions have put the self-employed who had informality as their main advantage in difficulty.
So from 2015, when an action against informality started, the number of self-employed increased, but then they could not survive, so the number of these is falling rapidly.
In the region, after Albania is ranked Kosovo, where the self-employment rate to the total number of self-employed, according to the Kosovo Agency of Statistics for 2017, is estimated at 23.5%.
In third place, for a high rate of self-employment, ranks Serbia, where the percentage of self-employed is estimated to be 21.4%, according to the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Half of the self-employed in Serbia are in the agricultural sector./Monitor
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