# EU countries by persons employed in accommodation and food services, 2024

All 27 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `sbs_persons_employed_accommodation_food`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Number of persons who work in enterprises of accommodation and food services (NACE Rev. 2 section I): 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.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Structural business statistics, Accommodation and food services (NACE Rev. 2 section I), persons employed, number (sbs_ovw_act) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_ovw_act/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Structural business statistics, Accommodation and food services (NACE Rev. 2 section I), persons employed, number (sbs_ovw_act). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_ovw_act/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/persons-employed-accommodation-food/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 2,392,630 |
| 2 | Spain | 1,748,137 |
| 3 | Italy | 1,728,356 |
| 4 | France | 1,394,585 |
| 5 | Greece | 743,073 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 552,986 |
| 7 | Portugal | 468,927 |
| 8 | Poland | 330,992 |
| 9 | Austria | 323,875 |
| 10 | Sweden | 248,584 |
| 11 | Ireland | 247,691 |
| 12 | Romania | 208,899 |
| 13 | Belgium | 190,189 |
| 14 | Czechia | 185,508 |
| 15 | Hungary | 172,286 |
| 16 | Denmark | 159,008 |
| 17 | Bulgaria | 154,285 |
| 18 | Croatia | 129,289 |
| 19 | Finland | 82,772 |
| 20 | Slovakia | 65,813 |
| 21 | Cyprus | 58,293 |
| 22 | Lithuania | 52,977 |
| 23 | Slovenia | 44,842 |
| 24 | Latvia | 35,006 |
| 25 | Malta | 29,382 |
| 26 | Estonia | 27,888 |
| 27 | Luxembourg | 24,493 |