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Employment, Domestic Concept (Quarterly, SCA): European Union (EU27)

The latest reading SOTW holds for European Union (EU27) is 221,428.4 thousand persons for 2026-Q2, from Eurostat.

Reviewed series · Labor · Quarterly · thousand persons · EUROSTAT.EMP.LEVEL.Q · EU27

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
221,428.4
thousand persons · 2026-Q2
Previous
221,202.5
thousand persons · 2026-Q1
Earliest held
186,359.8
thousand persons · 2000-Q1
Readings shown
106
Every reading SOTW holds

European Union (EU27) · history

thousand persons · Quarterly

Source: Eurostat. Viewer read 2026-11-12T03:21:03.544Z (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): European Union (EU27): 106 readings, newest first. Source: Eurostat.
PeriodValue (thousand persons)
2026-Q2221,428.4
2026-Q1221,202.5
2025-Q4221,084.3
2025-Q3220,663.4
2025-Q2220,397.1
2025-Q1220,083.6
2024-Q4219,867.1
2024-Q3219,650.9
2024-Q2219,460.0
2024-Q1219,099.2
2023-Q4218,428.8
2023-Q3217,792.8
2023-Q2217,466.4
2023-Q1216,872.4
2022-Q4216,002.0
2022-Q3215,211.3
2022-Q2214,916.3
2022-Q1213,693.7
2021-Q4212,727.4
2021-Q3211,629.4
2021-Q2209,450.5
2021-Q1207,556.7
2020-Q4207,514.1
2020-Q3206,315.4
2020-Q2204,306.1
2020-Q1209,874.0
2019-Q4210,372.9
2019-Q3210,121.9
2019-Q2209,946.0
2019-Q1209,013.3
2018-Q4207,905.0
2018-Q3207,630.4
2018-Q2207,207.9
2018-Q1206,116.1
2017-Q4205,204.6
2017-Q3204,769.9
2017-Q2204,130.3
2017-Q1202,943.7
2016-Q4202,110.4
2016-Q3201,343.7
2016-Q2200,749.4
2016-Q1199,961.0
2015-Q4199,553.3
2015-Q3198,837.9
2015-Q2198,043.3
2015-Q1197,393.1
2014-Q4197,269.9
2014-Q3196,963.8
2014-Q2196,345.1
2014-Q1195,855.5
2013-Q4195,272.4
2013-Q3194,795.8
2013-Q2194,711.9
2013-Q1194,614.7
2012-Q4195,082.4
2012-Q3195,491.3
2012-Q2195,841.8
2012-Q1195,878.7
2011-Q4195,842.0
2011-Q3195,980.2
2011-Q2196,245.3
2011-Q1196,242.1
2010-Q4196,149.6
2010-Q3195,985.7
2010-Q2196,012.2
2010-Q1195,916.7
2009-Q4196,510.5
2009-Q3197,109.5
2009-Q2198,254.0
2009-Q1199,549.7
2008-Q4201,028.2
2008-Q3201,591.3
2008-Q2201,683.1
2008-Q1201,688.6
2007-Q4200,667.7
2007-Q3200,243.8
2007-Q2199,161.5
2007-Q1198,130.4
2006-Q4196,837.8
2006-Q3196,150.2
2006-Q2195,200.6
2006-Q1193,911.6
2005-Q4193,012.0
2005-Q3191,979.8
2005-Q2191,603.3
2005-Q1190,951.6
2004-Q4190,744.0
2004-Q3190,163.8
2004-Q2189,724.2
2004-Q1189,166.0
2003-Q4189,491.7
2003-Q3189,188.1
2003-Q2189,018.1
2003-Q1188,516.2
2002-Q4188,583.7
2002-Q3188,538.8
2002-Q2188,469.2
2002-Q1188,159.3
2001-Q4188,961.2
2001-Q3188,846.7
2001-Q2188,538.2
2001-Q1188,664.2
2000-Q4188,436.7
2000-Q3187,789.5
2000-Q2187,108.3
2000-Q1186,359.8

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