Number of female business owners in Greece
Greece: Number of female business owners was 5,579 in 2024. ▲ Rising
Number of female business owners in Greece, 2014–2024
Source: World Bank's Entrepreneurship Survey and database (https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/entrepreneurship). Downloaded on May 2, 2026.
Analysis
In 2024, number of female business owners in Greece stood at 5,579. That is the highest value across all 11 years on record.
That represents a change of up 9.8% on the previous year and up 381.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, number of female business owners in Greece peaked at 5,579 in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,159, in 2014.
Greece ranks 28th of 72 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 11 years of available data.
Number of female business owners in Greece, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1,159 | — |
| 2015 | 1,190 | +2.7% |
| 2016 | 2,240 | +88.2% |
| 2017 | 3,490 | +55.8% |
| 2018 | 4,593 | +31.6% |
| 2019 | 4,683 | +2.0% |
| 2020 | 4,033 | -13.9% |
| 2021 | 4,673 | +15.9% |
| 2022 | 5,131 | +9.8% |
| 2023 | 5,080 | -1.0% |
| 2024 | 5,579 | +9.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 2,892 | 1,159 | 4,683 | 6 |
| 2020s | 4,899 | 4,033 | 5,579 | 5 |
Countries ranked near Greece
More private sector data for Greece
- Merchandise trade 52.5% (2025)
- Food imports 13.1% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 54.6% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 92.56 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 21.7% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 37.1% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 54.77 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 5,259 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1952 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 1.24 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is number of female business owners in Greece?
- Number of female business owners in Greece was 5,579 in 2024, according to World Bank's Entrepreneurship Survey and database (https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/entrepreneurship). Downloaded on May 2, 2026.
- What is the highest number of female business owners recorded in Greece?
- The highest recorded value was 5,579 in 2024.
- What is the lowest number of female business owners recorded in Greece?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,159 in 2014.
- How does Greece rank for number of female business owners?
- Greece ranks 28th out of 72 countries with data for 2024.
- Is number of female business owners rising or falling in Greece?
- Over the last ten years it is up 381.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Greece data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank's Entrepreneurship Survey and database (https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/entrepreneurship). Downloaded on May 2, 2026, published as part of Number of female business owners. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Number of female business owners is the number of female individuals that own at least one share of a limited liability company that was newly registered in the calendar year.