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October 15, Fineko/abc.az. In the first 6 months of 2025, the number of women engaged in entrepreneurial activity in Azerbaijan exceeded 330,000.

ABC.AZ informs that Samir Humbatov, first deputy chairman of board at KOBIA, stated about this during his speech at the event on the theme "The Power of Women in the Turkic World".

According to Humbatov, this means an increase of close to 7% compared to last year: "As of January 1, 2025, 48% of the employed population in our country are women. More than 23% of active individual entrepreneurs are women. In 2024, about 2,800 small and medium-sized businesses, the founders of which are women, were registered. This shows that women's entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan is developing and will continue to develop."