Key figures on European business: 2024 edition 

Did you know that the EU business economy included almost 31 million enterprises, employing around 156 million people and creating €9 400 billion of added value? Or that the EU produced 1.2 million full electric cars and 15% of all imported cars were electric?
 
You can find this and much more information in the latest edition of Key figures on European business. Using intuitive visualisations and brief explanations, the publication will give you an insightful overview of the business economy in Europe.  

The publication opens with a comprehensive summary of the entire business economy, followed by an analysis of its structure. The next 4 chapters focus on various sectors of the business economy: industry, construction, distributive trades and other market services. The final chapter is dedicated to the tourism sector. 

Compared with last year’s publication, the 2024 edition now also includes an overview of multinational enterprise (MNE) groups operating in the EU and EFTA. Those 146 000 MNE groups employed 48 million persons, or 28% of the total number of persons employed in the EU business economy.