# EU countries by persons employed in water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation, 2024

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

- Indicator id: `sbs_persons_employed_water_waste`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Number of persons who work in enterprises of water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation (NACE Rev. 2 section E): 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, Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation (NACE Rev. 2 section E), 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, Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation (NACE Rev. 2 section E), 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-water-waste/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 315,362 |
| 2 | France | 264,937 |
| 3 | Italy | 234,818 |
| 4 | Spain | 181,689 |
| 5 | Poland | 151,377 |
| 6 | Romania | 87,403 |
| 7 | Czechia | 55,928 |
| 8 | Hungary | 45,468 |
| 9 | Portugal | 40,359 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 31,786 |
| 11 | Croatia | 31,679 |
| 12 | Bulgaria | 30,796 |
| 13 | Belgium | 28,445 |
| 14 | Sweden | 26,756 |
| 15 | Austria | 22,771 |
| 16 | Slovakia | 19,655 |
| 17 | Greece | 17,380 |
| 18 | Denmark | 14,268 |
| 19 | Finland | 13,424 |
| 20 | Lithuania | 12,418 |
| 21 | Ireland | 11,696 |
| 22 | Slovenia | 11,126 |
| 23 | Latvia | 6,871 |
| 24 | Estonia | 3,619 |
| 25 | Malta | 2,114 |
| 26 | Cyprus | 1,857 |
| 27 | Luxembourg | 1,600 |