the number of people employed in ngos

In the non-governmental sector, we employ slightly more than 13.400 people. More than half of all workers are employed in institutions although they represent only 13,47 % of all non-governmental organisations. 

 

As NGOs, we count associations (including data on branches of associations and youth councils), institutes (including religious communities that have the status of a humanitarian organisation) and foundations. Associations, institutes and foundations established by the Republic of Slovenia, municipalities or other public-law entities are excluded from the data.

 

THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE EMPLOYED IN NGOs IN 2009 AND 2021–2024

  2009 2021 2022 2023 2024
associations  2.881 5.178 5.486 5.629 5.577
institutes 2.682 7.329 7.133 7.466 7.788
foundations 53 54 52 53 51
total 5.616 12.561 12.671 13.148 13.416
 

The number of persons employed in NGOs has been growing in recent years. Associations and institutes employed more persons than in the last year. Only in foundations the number of employees vary from year to year.

 

SHARES OF PERSONS EMPLOYED WITHIN THE NON-GOVERNMENTAL SECTOR (2024)

 

 

More than a half of the persons employed in non-governmental organisations are working in institutes, followed by persons working in associations and in foundations.

 

EMPLOYMENT RATE IN ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTES AND FOUNDATIONS (2024)

   Associations: number and share institutes: number and share foundations: number and share total
0 21.487 (95,54%) 2.645 (74,74 %) 234 (94,74 %) 24.366 (92,73 %)
1 547 (2,43%) 421 (11,90 %) 3 (1,21 %) 971 (3,70 %)
2 187 (0,83%) 129 (3,65 %) 4 (1,62 %) 320 (1,22 %)
3 - 5 129 (0,57%) 121 (3,42 %) 3 (1,21 %) 253 (0,96 %)
6 - 10

42 (0,23 %)

 87 (2,46 %) 2 (0,81 %) 141 (0,54 %)
11 - 20 45 (0,20 %) 58 (1,64 %) 1 (0,40 %) 104 (0,40 %)
21 - 50 24 (0,11 %) 49 (1,38 %) 0 (0,00 %) 73 (0,28 %)
> 50 20 (0,09 %) 29 (0,82 %) 0 (0,00 %) 49 (0,19 %)
total 22.491 3.539 247 26.277

The vast majority of NGOs (as much as 92.73%) do not have a single employee, the largest percentage to be found in associations (as much as 95,53% of all associations) and the lowest in institutes (77,02 % of all institutions). In terms of the number of employees in the organization, institutes lead the way, which also employ more than half of all workers in the sector. Otherwise, 4,46% of associations, 25,26 % of institutions and 5,62 % of institutions have at least one employee.

 

THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED IN AN NGO WITH REGARD TO ITS LEGAL FORM (2024)

 

On average, a Slovenian NGO has 0,5 employees. There is considerable fluctuation to this average if we consider each legal form separately: on average, an institute has 2,2 employed persons, association has 0,25 employees and the foundation has 0,21 employees.

 

Source: AJPES