Bosnia and Herzegovina
Western Balkans · statistics to 2024–25 · policy framework at end-2025 · policy desk-coded
Dimensions
| Dimension | Score | Rank /45 | WB6 | EU-27 | Indicators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political | 38.0 | 41 | 53.2 | 71.5 | 7 / 8 |
| Economic | 53.0 | 31 | 51.5 | 62.8 | 8 / 20 |
| Legal | 67.8 | 20 | 66.5 | 63.8 | 7 / 12 |
| Institutional | 38.7 | 45 | 45.3 | 61.9 | 10 / 16 |
| Financial | 37.6 | 38 | 51.7 | 71.0 | 3 / 7 |
| Composite | 47.0 | 38 | 53.6 | 66.2 | 35 / 63 |
Indicators = scored now / in the full SEI matrix. Ties share a rank.
Composite, 2015–2024
Same goalposts every year. Legal and financial scores are held at their single readings, so change comes from governance, social and labour statistics, firm demography and early-stage entrepreneurship.
Social-enterprise policy and legal framework, end-2025
| SE strategy / action plan 1.2.1 none found (SE named as a measure in FBiH Development Strategy 2021-2027 and FBiH Small Business Development Strategy 2022-2027) · source | 0/3 |
| Institutional structure & dialogue 1.2.2 RS Ministry of Economy and Entrepreneurship; RS Council for Development of Social Entrepreneurship (provided by the 2021 law) · source | 1/2 |
| Social clauses in public procurement 2.3.2 BiH Law on Public Procurement (Sl. glasnik BiH 39/14, 59/22, 50/24), Art. 9 reserved contracts · source | 1/2 |
| Official SE definition 3.1 Republika Srpska Law on Social Entrepreneurship (2021) | 1/1 |
| Legal recognition of SEs 3.2.1 Republika Srpska Law on Social Entrepreneurship (Official Gazette of RS 111/21) and Brčko District Law on Social Entrepreneurship (Official Gazette of BD 3/2022); FBiH law still in parliamentary procedure at end-2025 | 2/2 |
| SE support ecosystem 4.3.6 NGO/foundation incubators (Mozaik Social Business Incubator, regional incubators, CEED) and project-based networks | 1/2 |
| EU funds mobilised for SE 5.1.1 ad hoc EU support via CSO-oriented instruments (IPA, EIDHR, Erasmus+) | 1/2 |
| Dedicated national funding 5.2.2 No dedicated public funding line for SEs; SE-status entities eligible for a minor conference incentive under the Republika Srpska SME-promotion decree (May 2025) · source | 0/2 |
Policy composite 50.0 of 100 (mean of the eight codes). Fragmented: Republika Srpska has an SE law (2021); FBiH law pending in Parliament (Dec 2025); no state-level law or strategy; support mainly donor/NGO-driven.
SEI 2021 pilot note
The 2021 note on Bosnia and Herzegovina, with its country facts, charts and sources, is kept in the archive as published. Its figures date from 2020–21 and are not updated.
Cite this profile
Social Entrepreneurship Observatory & SENIC. (2026). Bosnia and Herzegovina: SEI 2026 country profile (provisional edition, version 0.9.1). Social Entrepreneurship Index. https://seindex.org/countries/bosnia-and-herzegovina/