Serbia
Western Balkans · statistics to 2024–25 · policy framework at end-2025 · policy desk-coded
Dimensions
| Dimension | Score | Rank /45 | WB6 | EU-27 | Indicators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political | 61.1 | 24 | 53.2 | 71.5 | 7 / 8 |
| Economic | 55.6 | 26 | 51.5 | 62.8 | 12 / 20 |
| Legal | 74.1 | 16 | 66.5 | 63.8 | 7 / 12 |
| Institutional | 48.9 | 35 | 45.3 | 61.9 | 10 / 16 |
| Financial | 49.9 | 29 | 51.7 | 71.0 | 3 / 7 |
| Composite | 57.9 | 24 | 53.6 | 66.2 | 39 / 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 Social Entrepreneurship Development Program and Action Plan (draft; required by the 2022 Law) · source | 1/3 |
| Institutional structure & dialogue 1.2.2 Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs; Council for Social Entrepreneurship (est. 2022, Sl. glasnik RS 59/22) · source | 2/2 |
| Social clauses in public procurement 2.3.2 Law on Public Procurement (2019, applied from 2020) - reserved procurement · source | 1/2 |
| Official SE definition 3.1 Law on Social Entrepreneurship (2022) · source | 1/1 |
| Legal recognition of SEs 3.2.1 Law on Social Entrepreneurship (Sl. glasnik RS 14/2022) · source | 2/2 |
| SE support ecosystem 4.3.6 NGO/foundation/hub support (Smart Kolektiv, Trag, Impact Hub, Belgrade City Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, NALED) | 1/2 |
| EU funds mobilised for SE 5.1.1 ad hoc EU support (IPA, EIDHR, Erasmus+, EaSI, COSME, WB EDIF) via CSOs and intermediaries | 1/2 |
| Dedicated national funding 5.2.2 Law on Social Entrepreneurship Art. 18; RSD 50 million earmarked in the 2024 budget (Ministry of Labour) · source | 1/2 |
Policy composite 66.7 of 100 (mean of the eight codes). General SE law (2022) with registry and Council, but implementation stalled: development program unadopted, ~26 registered SEs, 2024 budget earmark not operationalised.
SEI 2021 pilot note
The 2021 note on Serbia, 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). Serbia: SEI 2026 country profile (provisional edition, version 0.9.1). Social Entrepreneurship Index. https://seindex.org/countries/serbia/