Pharma industry employees in Europe by country 2021

This statistic depicts the European pharmaceutical industry's employment by selected countries in 2021 (or latest year available). The pharmaceutical industry in Denmark employed nearly 28 thousand persons in that year. Thus, Denmark was ranked in the middle based on pharmaceutical employees.

Pharmaceutical employment in selected European countries in 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
Germany	121,245
France	99,310
United Kingdom	70,000
Italy	67,300
Spain	49,200
Switzerland	46,800
Turkey	42,291
Belgium	42,062
Ireland	40,204
Hungary	34,800
Romania	33,230
Greece	28,800
Denmark	27,868
Poland	25,868
Netherlands	20,000
Czech Republic	18,000
Austria	16,381
Bulgaria	15,500
Sweden	13,156
Slovenia	12,583
Portugal	9,000
Finland	6,061
Croatia	6,041
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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2023

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Europe

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

Figures are from 2021 or latest year available.
France, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Turkey: 2020 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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