Number of full-time employees in the EU 2002-2019
There are almost 183 million full-time workers in the European Union as of 2019, an increase of 1.62 million when compared with 2018 when there were approximately 181.3 million full-time workers in the EU. Prior to the financial crash of 2008, full-time workers numbered around 180.5 million, but dropped to 169.4 million by 2013. It was not until ten years later in 2018, that the number of full-time workers recovered to pre-crisis levels.
