Number of full-time employees in the EU 2002-2021

There are over 158.9 million full-time workers in the European Union as of 2021, an increase when compared with 2020 when there were approximately 156.8 million full-time workers in the EU. At the time of the financial crash of 2008, full-time workers numbered around 158.7 million, but dropped to 147.9 million by 2013. It was not until ten years later in 2018, that the number of full-time workers recovered to pre-crisis levels.