• EU enterprise size share 2020

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As of 2020, approximately 93.3 percent of enterprises in the non-financial business economy of Europe were micro-sized businesses that employed between zero and nine people. In the same year, approximately 5.7 percent were defined as small businesses (10-49 employees), 0.9 percent were medium-sized (50-249) and 0.2 percent were large businesses that employed 250 or more people.

Share of enterprise sizes in the non-financial business economy in the European Union (EU27) countries in 2020

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July 2021

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2020

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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.