Denmark: manufacture of food products - number of employees 2020

The number of employees in the food product manufacturing industry in Denmark increased by 1,270 employees (+2.39 percent) in 2020. In total, the number of employees amounted to 54,332 employees in 2020.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the food products manufacturing sector in Denmark from 2011 to 2020

Characteristic	Total number of employees
2020	54,332
2019	53,062
2018	54,578
2017	52,768
2016b	52,306
2015	53,998
2014	55,930
2013	56,044
2012	57,653
2011	58,253

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Release date

March 2023

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Denmark

Survey time period

2011 to 2020

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work.
Data coverage corresponds to Section C10 of NACE Rev2.

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