Cultural employment in European Union
Cultural employment made up 4.3% of total employment in the European Union in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2011. The source marks a break in the series within this span, so values before and after it may not be fully comparable.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by Eurostat, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2025
4.3%
Change from 2024
+0.1percentage points
Cultural employment in European Union over time
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% of total employment. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.3% |
| 2024 | 4.2% |
| 2023 | 4.2% |
| 2022 | 4.2% |
| 2021 | 4.2%b (break in time series) |
| 2020 | 4.1% |
| 2019 | 4.1% |
| 2018 | 4.1% |
| 2017 | 4.1% |
| 2016 | 4.0% |
| 2015 | 4.0% |
| 2014 | 4.0% |
| 2013 | 4.1% |
| 2012 | 4.1% |
| 2011 | 3.9% |
Flags: b break in time series . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +0.1 percentage points from 4.2% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 4.0%, the figure has changed by +0.3 percentage points. The source marks a break in the series during this period, so part of the change may come from a change in method.