In 2021, there was a total of 894 000 enterprises in the EU’s arts, entertainment and recreation sector, representing 2.9% of all enterprises active in the business economy.
Following the entry into force of the European Business Statistics (EBS) Regulation, Eurostat has extended the service coverage for structural business statistics (SBS) and is publishing, for the first time, SBS data on the arts, entertainment and recreation sector.
In 2021, the arts, entertainment and recreation sector provided employment to 2.1 million people, representing 1.3% of all the people employed in the business economy. The sector contributed €86.5 billion in value added, accounting for 0.9% of value added created by the EU’s business economy.
The highest contribution of this sector to the value added to the business economy was recorded in Malta (16.9%), followed by Slovakia (3.7%) and Hungary (2.3%). The lowest contributions were recorded in Luxembourg (0.2%), Poland (0.4%) and Ireland (0.5%).
Source dataset: sbs_ovw_act
In terms of employment, Malta recorded the highest share (5.3%), ahead of Denmark (2.6%) and Spain (2.3%). The lowest shares of employment in arts, entertainment and recreation sector in the business economy total were registered in Luxembourg (0.4%), Poland (0.5%) and Czechia (0.8%).