SME employment EU 2022, by size

In 2022, there were approximately 84.6 million people employed by SMEs in the European Union, Micro-sized enterprises that employed between zero and nine people employed 37.7 million people in this year, small-sized businesses (10-49 employees) employed 26.1 million people, while medium ones (50-249 employees) employed around 20.8 million people.

Number of people employed by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union (EU27) from 2008 to 2022, by enterprise size

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June 2022

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Survey time period

2008 to 2022

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The data cover the 'non-financial business economy', which includes industry, construction, trade, and services (NACE Rev. 2 sections B to J, L, M and N), but not enterprises in agriculture, forestry and fisheries and the largely non-market service sectors such as education and health. The following size-class definitions are applied: micro firms (0-9 persons employed), small firms (10-49 persons employed), medium-sized firms (50-249 persons employed), and large firms (250+ persons employed). The advantage of using Eurostat data is that the statistics are harmonised and comparable across countries. The disadvantage is that for some countries the data may be different from those published by national authorities.

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