Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2016
An OECD Scoreboard
This report monitors SME and entrepreneur access to finance in 37 countries. It includes indicators of debt, equity, asset-based finance and framework conditions for SME and entrepreneurship finance, complemented by an overview of recent developments in public and private initiatives to support SME finance. Taken together, these indicators form a comprehensive framework for policy makers and other stakeholders to evaluate the financing needs of SMEs.
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Estonia
Of all Estonian firms in 2013, only 0.2% were large enterprises, employing more than 250 staff. SMEs employed 79.3% of the workforce and accounted for 75.8% of the value added. 90.4% of all firms were micro-enterprises, i.e. firms with less than 10 employees, employing 31.5% of the workforce and accounting for 25.6% of the value added in 2013.