Persons employed in manufacturing
Number of persons who work in enterprises of manufacturing (NACE Rev. 2 section C): 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
- Persons employed in manufacturing in the European Union (27) was 29.96 million in 2024, according to Eurostat, European Commission.
- Germany had the highest persons employed in manufacturing of 27 EU countries in 2024, at 7.9 million, and Malta the lowest, at 26,143. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.
- Published for 28 places, with figures from 2005 to 2024.
Rankings
EU countries by persons employed in manufacturing, 2024
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Poland
- Romania
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Czechia
- Portugal
- Estonia
- Bulgaria
- Sweden
- Denmark
- Malta
- Austria
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