Olan McEvoy
Research expert covering the European Union for society, economy, and politics.
Get in touch with us nowAs of 2022, Italy was the European country with the greatest number of self-employed workers, followed by the UK, France, and Germany. Self-employment is often linked to family businesses and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which Italy in particular has a large number of. Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta have the the smallest number of self-employed persons, with less than 50,000 of these workers in each country.
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