Pharma industry employees in Europe by country 2020

This statistic depicts the European pharmaceutical industry's employment by selected countries in 2020 (or latest year available). The pharmaceutical industry in Denmark employed nearly 26 thousand persons in that year. Thus, Denmark was ranked in the middle based on pharmaceutical employees.

Pharmaceutical employment in selected European countries in 2020

Characteristic	Number of employees
Germany	115,519
France	99,310
United Kingdom	72,000
Italy	66,400
Spain	48,867
Switzerland	47,000
Turkey	42,291
Ireland	42,000
Belgium	40,464
Romania	35,000
Hungary	28,300
Greece	26,500
Denmark	25,686
Netherlands	20,000
Czech Republic	18,000
Austria	16,335
Poland	16,121
Bulgaria	15,500
Sweden	13,156
Slovenia	11,969
Portugal	9,100
Finland	6,178
Croatia	5,987
Norway	4,500
Slovakia	2,287
Latvia	2,232
Cyprus	1,755
Lithuania	1,220
Malta	1,033
Iceland	500
Estonia	380

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Release date

2022

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Region

Europe

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

Figures are from 2020 or latest year available.
Austria, Spain: 2019 data; Cyprus, Latvia, Malta: 2018 data; Slovakia: 2017 data; Estonia: 2016 data; Lithuania: 2013 data.
Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom: estimates.

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