Persons employed in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

Number of persons who work in enterprises of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (NACE Rev. 2 section D): employees plus working proprietors, partners working regularly in the enterprise and unpaid family workers. A head count, not full-time equivalents. Eurostat structural business statistics.

Eurostat structural business statistics. From 2021 the series come from sbs_ovw_act under Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics; 2005 to 2020 come from the earlier table sbs_na_sca_r2. Values for 2021 are flagged as a break: value added moved from factor cost to basic prices and some activities changed coverage, so the change from 2020 to 2021 is not all real. Amounts are published in euros for every country, including those outside the euro area. Not the same as active_companies (INE business register, Spain) or employer_firms (US Census Bureau).

Key facts

Figures last updated on 2026-10-12.

Rankings

EU countries by persons employed in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, 2024

Top 15. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Germany: 445,146 personsGermany445,146France: 239,279 personsFrance239,279Poland: 148,541 personsPoland148,541Italy: 100,514 personsItaly100,514Romania: 63,001 personsRomania63,001Spain: 46,307 personsSpain46,307Czechia: 42,621 personsCzechia42,621Austria: 39,774 personsAustria39,774Hungary: 39,760 personsHungary39,760Netherlands: 38,703 personsNetherlands38,703Sweden: 37,076 personsSweden37,076Bulgaria: 33,420 personsBulgaria33,420Greece: 32,270 personsGreece32,270Belgium: 22,867 personsBelgium22,867Denmark: 18,930 personsDenmark18,930
persons. Source: Eurostat, Structural business statistics, Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (NACE Rev. 2 section D), persons employed, number (sbs_ovw_act). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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