Persons employed in professional, scientific and technical activities in European Union (27)

Persons employed in professional, scientific and technical activities in the European Union (27) was 12.69 million in 2024, according to Eurostat, European Commission. That is up 2.4% from 2023.

2024, persons12,688,045

Change on 2023+2.4%

Series high12,688,0452024

Series low9,300,0002011

Next release: Thursday, 30 September 2027, estimated by Invokely from past publication dates (low confidence), not announced by the publisher. Release calendar

Persons employed in professional, scientific and technical activities in European Union (27), 2011 to 2024

persons. Source: Eurostat, Structural business statistics, Professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M), persons employed, number (sbs_ovw_act). Retrieved 2026-10-12, published 2026-09-30.

All 14 values

Period	persons
2024	12,688,045
2023	12,395,168
2022	12,107,415
2021	11,637,951 Series break
2020	11,221,676
2019	11,399,712
2018	11,099,373
2017	10,979,488
2016	10,854,775
2015	10,334,274
2014	10,091,730
2013	9,669,220
2012	9,522,757
2011	9,300,000 Estimated

Rankings

EU countries by persons employed in professional, scientific and technical activities 27 places

Definition

Number of persons who work in enterprises of professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M): 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).

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Eurostat. Structural business statistics, Professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M), persons employed, number (sbs_ovw_act). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_ovw_act/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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Eurostat, European Commission. (2026). Structural business statistics, Professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M), persons employed, number (sbs_ovw_act) (Persons employed in professional, scientific and technical activities, European Union (27), 2011 to 2024) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_ovw_act/default/table

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Structural business statistics, Professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M), persons employed, number (sbs_ovw_act), Persons employed in professional, scientific and technical activities, European Union (27), 2011 to 2024. Eurostat, European Commission, 30 Sept. 2026, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_ovw_act/default/table. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/persons-employed-professional-scientific/european-union. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

Eurostat, European Commission. 2026. Structural business statistics, Professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M), persons employed, number (sbs_ovw_act). Persons employed in professional, scientific and technical activities, European Union (27), 2011 to 2024. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_ovw_act/default/table. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/persons-employed-professional-scientific/european-union.

Harvard

Eurostat, European Commission (2026) Structural business statistics, Professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M), persons employed, number (sbs_ovw_act), Persons employed in professional, scientific and technical activities, European Union (27), 2011 to 2024 [Dataset]. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_ovw_act/default/table, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/persons-employed-professional-scientific/european-union (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_ovw_act/default/table},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/persons-employed-professional-scientific/european-union. Publisher attribution: Eurostat. Structural business statistics, Professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M), persons employed, number (sbs\_ovw\_act). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs\_ovw\_act/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
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