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Interest in SME Houses as an innovative model in the field of business services is increasing Additional 55 people were engaged in training within the framework of the “Karabakh SME 2026” project More than 312,000 services were provided to entrepreneurs in SME Houses in the first half of 2026 Applications of entrepreneurs were considered at KOBİA In the first half of 2026, the KOBİA Call Centre via number 131 responded to approximately 5,000 enquiries The next meeting within the framework of the "Investment Journey" project was held in the city of Aghsu Business projects that have received the "Startup" Certificate are developing More than 50 meetings with entrepreneurs were organised in the first half of 2026 Another meeting with entrepreneurs was organised in the city of Mingachevir A production enterprise for test kits and medical plastic packaging products will be established

Number of private entrepreneurs exceeded 1 million 275 thousand 22.07.23

As of July 1, the number of private entrepreneurs registered to conduct business activities without setting up a legal entity exceeded 1.275 thousand.

According to the State Statistics Committee, three out of every four private entrepreneurs are engaged in "Agriculture, forestry and fishing", "Trade; repair of motor vehicles", "Transport and warehousing" and "Providing services in other fields" are registered in this period.

The majority of private entrepreneurs seeking to engage in business activities are registered in Baku (27.0 percent), Lankaran-Astara (10.2 percent), Gazakh-Tovuz (7.8 percent) and Central Aran (7.0 percent) economic regions.

77.6 percent of private entrepreneurs were men, and 22.4 percent were women. The ratio of women among the total number of entrepreneurs stands at 34.1 in the field of "Providing services in other fields" activity, 25.0 percent in the field of "Agriculture, forestry and fishing", 21.3 percent in the field of "Trade; repair of motor vehicles". 29.2 percent of female entrepreneurs were registered in Baku, 10.3 percent in Lankaran-Astara, 9.5 percent in Gazakh-Tovuz, and the rest in other economic regions. The gender distribution of private entrepreneurs by regions reveals that the proportion of female entrepreneurs in the economic regions of Gazakh-Tovuz (27.2 percent), Ganja-Dashkasan (25.5 percent), Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (24.8 percent), Baku (24.2 percent) and Lankaran-Astara (22.5 percent) is higher than the national average.

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