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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).

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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. 

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Most of these enterprises were in France (23,648), Spain (5,910), Germany (5,374), Czechia (5,349) and Italy (4,393).

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Source dataset: sbs_ovw_act

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Methodological note

Number of enterprises: 2023 data are provisional.

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