May 3, 2024

This information comes from the data on multinational enterprise groups in EU-EFTA countries published by Eurostat today, based on EuroGroups register (EGR). This article presents just a handful of findings from a more detailed Statistics Explained article.

Considering multinational enterprise groups operating in the EU and EFTA, 64 % were controlled by an EU country and 9% by an EFTA country. Together, they employed 83% of the total workforce of multinational enterprise groups in the EU and EFTA.

The remaining 27%, employing 17% of the workforce of these groups, were controlled by countries outside the EU and EFTA.

Most multinational enterprise groups controlled by Germany

Among multinational enterprise groups controlled by EU or EFTA countries, 15 500 were from Germany (making 11% of all multinational enterprise groups operating in the EU and EFTA), 13 100 were from the Netherlands (9%) and 10 200 from Switzerland (7%).

Source dataset: egr_mne

When considering countries outside the EU and EFTA, most multinational enterprise groups in the EU and EFTA were controlled by the United Kingdom (14 900 multinational enterprise groups; 10% of all operating in EU and EFTA), the United States (7 500; 5%) and China (including Hong Kong) (2 700; 2%).

Source: Eurostat
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