# EU countries by persons employed in information and communication, 2024

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

- Indicator id: `sbs_persons_employed_information_communication`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Number of persons who work in enterprises of information and communication (NACE Rev. 2 section J): 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, Information and communication (NACE Rev. 2 section J), 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, Information and communication (NACE Rev. 2 section J), 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-information-communication/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 1,549,962 |
| 2 | France | 1,069,442 |
| 3 | Spain | 687,019 |
| 4 | Italy | 659,992 |
| 5 | Poland | 572,732 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 388,994 |
| 7 | Romania | 278,487 |
| 8 | Sweden | 267,195 |
| 9 | Portugal | 193,314 |
| 10 | Czechia | 180,045 |
| 11 | Belgium | 174,537 |
| 12 | Hungary | 166,065 |
| 13 | Austria | 150,688 |
| 14 | Ireland | 150,298 |
| 15 | Bulgaria | 146,392 |
| 16 | Denmark | 130,375 |
| 17 | Greece | 118,709 |
| 18 | Finland | 114,338 |
| 19 | Slovakia | 89,022 |
| 20 | Croatia | 67,853 |
| 21 | Lithuania | 59,942 |
| 22 | Latvia | 44,474 |
| 23 | Estonia | 41,041 |
| 24 | Slovenia | 36,721 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 28,486 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 23,046 |
| 27 | Malta | 14,812 |