Employment
868,700 employed as authors, journalists or linguists
In 2023, 868,700 people in the EU were employed as authors, journalists or linguists. The number of people employed in these professions decreased by 2.5% compared with 2022.
In 2023, Germany employed the largest number of authors, journalists or linguists (237,600 people), followed by France (92,800), Spain (74,200), Italy (72,300) and Poland (69,600).
Source dataset: LFS special extraction
Compared with 2022, the number of people employed in these fields grew sharply in Luxembourg (+67.5%), Latvia (+43.1%) and Lithuania (+22.9%).
The largest relative decreases were recorded in Cyprus (-28.4%), Portugal (-27.4%) and Slovenia (-23.4%).
76,328 enterprises in the publishing industry in 2023
In 2023, there were 76,328 enterprises in the books and periodicals publishing industry.
Most of these enterprises were in France (23,648), Spain (5,910), Germany (5,374), Czechia (5,349) and Italy (4,393).
Source dataset: sbs_ovw_act
For more information
- Thematic section on structural business statistics
- Database on structural business statistics
- Thematic section on culture
- Database on culture
Methodological note
Number of enterprises: 2023 data are provisional.
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