# EU countries by persons employed in mining and quarrying, 2024

All 26 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2024, so the places are comparable. 1 EU countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `sbs_persons_employed_mining`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Number of persons who work in enterprises of mining and quarrying (NACE Rev. 2 section B): 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, Mining and quarrying (NACE Rev. 2 section B), 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, Mining and quarrying (NACE Rev. 2 section B), 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-mining/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Poland | 145,570 |
| 2 | Germany | 37,576 |
| 3 | Romania | 26,154 |
| 4 | Bulgaria | 18,580 |
| 5 | Spain | 18,193 |
| 6 | Czechia | 18,014 |
| 7 | Italy | 17,595 |
| 8 | France | 13,861 |
| 9 | Portugal | 9,800 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 8,432 |
| 11 | Sweden | 7,633 |
| 12 | Austria | 7,524 |
| 13 | Finland | 6,542 |
| 14 | Greece | 6,380 |
| 15 | Hungary | 4,100 |
| 16 | Slovakia | 3,953 |
| 17 | Denmark | 3,899 |
| 18 | Latvia | 3,431 |
| 19 | Lithuania | 2,489 |
| 20 | Estonia | 2,236 |
| 21 | Slovenia | 2,223 |
| 22 | Belgium | 2,180 |
| 23 | Croatia | 2,051 |
| 24 | Cyprus | 595 |
| 25 | Luxembourg | 254 |
| 26 | Malta | 188 |