# EU countries by persons employed in manufacturing, 2024

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

- Indicator id: `sbs_persons_employed_manufacturing`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Number of persons who work in enterprises of manufacturing (NACE Rev. 2 section C): 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, Manufacturing (NACE Rev. 2 section C), 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, Manufacturing (NACE Rev. 2 section C), 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-manufacturing/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 7,901,036 |
| 2 | Italy | 3,943,190 |
| 3 | France | 3,265,897 |
| 4 | Poland | 2,829,435 |
| 5 | Spain | 2,188,022 |
| 6 | Czechia | 1,248,982 |
| 7 | Romania | 1,072,454 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 779,290 |
| 9 | Hungary | 769,452 |
| 10 | Portugal | 750,259 |
| 11 | Austria | 727,738 |
| 12 | Sweden | 621,183 |
| 13 | Belgium | 501,087 |
| 14 | Bulgaria | 478,078 |
| 15 | Slovakia | 477,988 |
| 16 | Greece | 406,514 |
| 17 | Denmark | 345,308 |
| 18 | Finland | 326,507 |
| 19 | Croatia | 278,470 |
| 20 | Ireland | 278,377 |
| 21 | Lithuania | 231,688 |
| 22 | Slovenia | 222,541 |
| 23 | Latvia | 115,928 |
| 24 | Estonia | 105,367 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 38,213 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 33,421 |
| 27 | Malta | 26,143 |