Specialisations within EU manufacturing - Issue number 62/2009 - Products Statistics in Focus

The EU-27 manufacturing sector generated EUR 1 711 billion of value added in 2006 and employed 34 million persons, according to Structural Business Statistics (SBS). This was equivalent to 30 % of the value added and 27 % of the employment in the non-financial business economy (NACE Sections C to I and K). Manufacturing's importance (in value added terms) was highest in Hungary, Slovenia and Finland where it contributed more than two fifths of non-financial business economy value added.