# EU countries by persons employed in professional, scientific and technical activities, 2024

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

- Indicator id: `sbs_persons_employed_professional_scientific`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Number of persons who work in enterprises of professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M): 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, Professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M), 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, Professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M), 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-professional-scientific/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 2,724,207 |
| 2 | France | 1,588,126 |
| 3 | Italy | 1,539,663 |
| 4 | Spain | 1,169,535 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 842,398 |
| 6 | Poland | 811,357 |
| 7 | Sweden | 399,773 |
| 8 | Belgium | 393,271 |
| 9 | Portugal | 358,250 |
| 10 | Czechia | 316,287 |
| 11 | Hungary | 310,078 |
| 12 | Greece | 308,937 |
| 13 | Austria | 294,974 |
| 14 | Romania | 279,661 |
| 15 | Ireland | 227,829 |
| 16 | Denmark | 204,757 |
| 17 | Slovakia | 172,551 |
| 18 | Finland | 139,370 |
| 19 | Bulgaria | 129,052 |
| 20 | Croatia | 101,502 |
| 21 | Lithuania | 88,619 |
| 22 | Slovenia | 71,913 |
| 23 | Luxembourg | 53,251 |
| 24 | Latvia | 46,592 |
| 25 | Estonia | 45,949 |
| 26 | Cyprus | 43,515 |
| 27 | Malta | 26,628 |