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Employment, Domestic Concept (Quarterly, SCA): Euro area (EA21)

The latest reading SOTW holds for Euro area (EA21) is 176,535.7 thousand persons for 2026-Q2, from Eurostat.

Reviewed series · Labor · Quarterly · thousand persons · EUROSTAT.EMP.LEVEL.Q · EA21

National accounts employment, employees plus self-employed, all industries. Domestic concept differs from residence-based labour-force survey employment. Seasonally and calendar adjusted. Values retain published units; no scaling, rebasing, interpolation or imputation by SOTW. Dataset updated timestamp is not an original observation release date or publisher vintage. Commercial geography policy reviewed 2026-10-10: EU/EFTA/official candidates only; UK, Kosovo and other noneligible countries excluded; CH/LI declaring-country commodity trade excluded.

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Latest
176,535.7
thousand persons · 2026-Q2
Previous
176,321.0
thousand persons · 2026-Q1
Earliest held
144,941.2
thousand persons · 2000-Q1
Readings shown
106
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Euro area (EA21) · history

thousand persons · Quarterly

Source: Eurostat. Viewer read 2026-11-12T03:23:04.392Z (UTC); publisher acquisition and release times are not supplied here. Original units; no interpolation, rebasing or conversion. Missing periods and stored U/B flags interrupt the line. Daily gaps can include non-business days.

Readings, newest first

Employment, Domestic Concept (Quarterly, SCA): Euro area (EA21): 106 readings, newest first. Source: Eurostat.
PeriodValue (thousand persons)
2026-Q2176,535.7
2026-Q1176,321.0
2025-Q4176,172.7
2025-Q3175,936.8
2025-Q2175,646.3
2025-Q1175,421.7
2024-Q4175,033.4
2024-Q3174,829.3
2024-Q2174,323.0
2024-Q1173,985.9
2023-Q4173,582.5
2023-Q3172,915.8
2023-Q2172,549.2
2023-Q1171,969.2
2022-Q4171,155.8
2022-Q3170,480.3
2022-Q2170,030.7
2022-Q1169,112.1
2021-Q4168,261.2
2021-Q3167,333.7
2021-Q2165,467.6
2021-Q1164,028.6
2020-Q4164,139.5
2020-Q3163,213.8
2020-Q2161,525.3
2020-Q1166,237.7
2019-Q4166,613.7
2019-Q3166,347.8
2019-Q2166,141.2
2019-Q1165,605.6
2018-Q4164,802.9
2018-Q3164,352.9
2018-Q2163,937.5
2018-Q1163,136.5
2017-Q4162,408.9
2017-Q3161,883.3
2017-Q2161,157.0
2017-Q1160,478.6
2016-Q4159,819.8
2016-Q3159,256.0
2016-Q2158,798.9
2016-Q1158,098.1
2015-Q4157,592.9
2015-Q3157,054.8
2015-Q2156,462.1
2015-Q1156,018.6
2014-Q4155,831.7
2014-Q3155,607.7
2014-Q2155,193.1
2014-Q1154,772.5
2013-Q4154,473.5
2013-Q3154,183.5
2013-Q2154,078.6
2013-Q1154,129.9
2012-Q4154,464.7
2012-Q3154,893.0
2012-Q2155,206.6
2012-Q1155,359.9
2011-Q4155,456.2
2011-Q3155,656.1
2011-Q2155,893.8
2011-Q1155,812.9
2010-Q4155,765.9
2010-Q3155,513.4
2010-Q2155,463.4
2010-Q1155,658.9
2009-Q4155,773.2
2009-Q3156,051.2
2009-Q2156,772.8
2009-Q1157,835.2
2008-Q4159,042.1
2008-Q3159,642.8
2008-Q2159,856.6
2008-Q1159,900.6
2007-Q4159,152.7
2007-Q3158,611.8
2007-Q2157,935.7
2007-Q1157,096.0
2006-Q4156,303.4
2006-Q3155,595.0
2006-Q2154,913.4
2006-Q1154,027.1
2005-Q4153,301.4
2005-Q3152,633.8
2005-Q2152,212.2
2005-Q1151,700.7
2004-Q4151,472.3
2004-Q3151,076.1
2004-Q2150,700.5
2004-Q1150,330.9
2003-Q4150,137.5
2003-Q3149,795.3
2003-Q2149,555.0
2003-Q1149,271.4
2002-Q4149,117.4
2002-Q3149,034.4
2002-Q2148,835.9
2002-Q1148,628.6
2001-Q4148,139.8
2001-Q3147,849.3
2001-Q2147,555.4
2001-Q1147,412.5
2000-Q4147,017.1
2000-Q3146,526.5
2000-Q2145,865.9
2000-Q1144,941.2

Source: Eurostat. All 106 readings held, 2000-Q1 to 2026-Q2. n/a means the source value is missing or withheld.

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Source: Eurostat, namq_10_a10_e, accessed 2026-11-11. Reuse permitted under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU. SOTW selected dimensions and geographies; Eurostat is not responsible for this republication.

Licence: EU-2011-833. Reuse remains subject to the source terms. Publisher page: https://doi.org/10.2908/namq_10_a10_e