# EU countries by persons employed in wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles, 2024

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

- Indicator id: `sbs_persons_employed_trade`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Number of persons who work in enterprises of wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles (NACE Rev. 2 section G): 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, Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles (NACE Rev. 2 section G), 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, Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles (NACE Rev. 2 section G), 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-trade/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 6,396,683 |
| 2 | France | 3,784,751 |
| 3 | Italy | 3,435,660 |
| 4 | Spain | 3,230,614 |
| 5 | Poland | 2,398,137 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 1,634,706 |
| 7 | Romania | 997,127 |
| 8 | Portugal | 860,345 |
| 9 | Greece | 853,434 |
| 10 | Czechia | 731,951 |
| 11 | Austria | 714,002 |
| 12 | Sweden | 660,918 |
| 13 | Belgium | 634,313 |
| 14 | Hungary | 610,953 |
| 15 | Bulgaria | 521,301 |
| 16 | Denmark | 487,093 |
| 17 | Ireland | 425,461 |
| 18 | Slovakia | 325,275 |
| 19 | Finland | 280,162 |
| 20 | Croatia | 261,825 |
| 21 | Lithuania | 247,206 |
| 22 | Latvia | 146,103 |
| 23 | Slovenia | 124,568 |
| 24 | Estonia | 99,879 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 78,268 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 54,865 |
| 27 | Malta | 44,291 |