Number of persons employed in individual entrepreneurship by type
thousand persons
Number of persons working for themselves or employing staff across various industries: statistics cover the period from 2021 to 2023. Rows specify various types of economic activity, from agriculture and forestry to mining. The indicator is measured in thousands of persons and reflects the total number of persons employed in the individual entrepreneurship sector nationwide
- Total — Number of persons employed in individual entrepreneurial activity
- Total — Number of actually operating individual entrepreneurs
- Total — Number of employees
- Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles — Number of persons employed in individual entrepreneurial activity
- of which retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles — Number of employed in individual entrepreneurial activity
- Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles — Number of employees
- Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles — Number of actually operating individual entrepreneurs
Chart of the number of persons employed in individual entrepreneurship by economic activity, 2021–2023, thousand persons
Who grew, who fell: 2021 → 2023
Set in numbers
Rosstat data for 2021–2023. Series: 72, period: 3. Measurement unit — thousand people. Shown by items: Total — Number of employed in the sphere of individual entrepreneurship; Total — Number of actually operating individual entrepreneurs; Total — Number of employees; Agriculture, forestry, hunting, fishing and fish farming; Agriculture, forestry, hunting, fishing and fish farming and others
Total — Number of employed in the sphere of individual entrepreneurship: the indicator increased from 6,851 to 7,148 over 2021–2023 — by 4.34%. Of 23 major series, 13 increased, 10 decreased
All table numbers are series: 72
How to read this table
Rows are categorized by economic sectors, allowing for comparison of employment scale across different sectors. One can compare the number of persons employed in mining or fish farming against the national total. Comparing annual data in columns shows the distribution of the labor force within individual entrepreneurship over the three-year period
What is visible in these numbers
Top five values: Total — Number of employed in the sphere of individual entrepreneurship (7,148), Total — Number of actually operating individual entrepreneurs (3,173), Total — Number of employees (3,152), Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles (3,051), including retail trade excluding motor vehicle trade (2,460). The gap between the highest and lowest values is 11,913 times. The top five account for 78% of the total across all items — the distribution is heavily skewed toward the top
Annual observations, 3 periods in the dataset. Of 75 possible values, 75 (100%) are filled — almost no empty cells remain
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Period and application
Statistics are based on data for 2021, 2022, and 2023. The information is published as part of the section on small and medium-sized enterprises in Russia. This data is useful for labor market researchers, business associations, and those analyzing the structure of self-employment and small business across various industries
How it is calculated
Noted in the source itself: Average number of employed in the sphere of individual entrepreneurial activity, including the individual entrepreneur themselves, employees, partners and assisting family members
1) Средняя численность занятых в сфере индивидуальной предпринимательской деятельности, включая самого индивидуального предпринимателя, наемных работников, партнеров и помогающих членов семьи.
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