# EU countries by persons employed in industry, construction and market services, 2024

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

- Indicator id: `sbs_persons_employed_business_economy`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Number of persons who work in enterprises of industry, construction and market services (NACE Rev. 2 sections B to S except O and S94): 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, Industry, construction and market services (NACE Rev. 2 sections B to S except O and S94), 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, Industry, construction and market services (NACE Rev. 2 sections B to S except O and S94), 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-business-economy/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 39,312,214 |
| 2 | France | 20,963,399 |
| 3 | Italy | 18,833,334 |
| 4 | Spain | 16,246,767 |
| 5 | Poland | 11,524,735 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 8,738,572 |
| 7 | Portugal | 4,802,474 |
| 8 | Romania | 4,768,128 |
| 9 | Czechia | 4,230,633 |
| 10 | Sweden | 4,068,276 |
| 11 | Belgium | 3,965,283 |
| 12 | Austria | 3,800,813 |
| 13 | Greece | 3,632,302 |
| 14 | Hungary | 3,345,697 |
| 15 | Ireland | 2,428,464 |
| 16 | Denmark | 2,265,056 |
| 17 | Bulgaria | 2,228,125 |
| 18 | Slovakia | 1,840,970 |
| 19 | Finland | 1,744,334 |
| 20 | Croatia | 1,352,144 |
| 21 | Lithuania | 1,304,173 |
| 22 | Slovenia | 792,746 |
| 23 | Latvia | 702,197 |
| 24 | Estonia | 544,570 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 412,687 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 399,781 |
| 27 | Malta | 273,922 |