# EU countries by persons employed in construction, 2024

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

- Indicator id: `sbs_persons_employed_construction`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Number of persons who work in enterprises of construction (NACE Rev. 2 section F): 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, Construction (NACE Rev. 2 section F), 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, Construction (NACE Rev. 2 section F), 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-construction/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 2,605,758 |
| 2 | France | 2,058,414 |
| 3 | Italy | 1,629,077 |
| 4 | Spain | 1,333,477 |
| 5 | Poland | 1,153,294 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 571,066 |
| 7 | Romania | 496,282 |
| 8 | Portugal | 460,413 |
| 9 | Sweden | 413,421 |
| 10 | Czechia | 412,733 |
| 11 | Austria | 352,478 |
| 12 | Belgium | 344,356 |
| 13 | Hungary | 317,437 |
| 14 | Greece | 210,050 |
| 15 | Ireland | 209,729 |
| 16 | Slovakia | 201,551 |
| 17 | Denmark | 200,560 |
| 18 | Finland | 169,006 |
| 19 | Bulgaria | 167,238 |
| 20 | Croatia | 161,695 |
| 21 | Lithuania | 136,724 |
| 22 | Slovenia | 84,531 |
| 23 | Latvia | 64,117 |
| 24 | Estonia | 55,060 |
| 25 | Luxembourg | 50,079 |
| 26 | Cyprus | 39,914 |
| 27 | Malta | 19,854 |