SME employment in Germany 2025, by size| ��ƽ��

Number of people employed by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany from 2008 to 2023 with forecasts until 2025, by enterprise size

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Release date

May 2025

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

2008 to 2023

Supplementary notes

* Estimates.

The source adds the following information:
The data cover the 'non-financial business economy', which includes industry, construction, trade, and services (NACE Rev. 2 sections B to J, L, M and N), but not enterprises in agriculture, forestry and fisheries and the largely non-market service sectors such as education and health. The following size-class definitions are applied: micro firms (0-9 persons employed), small firms (10-49 persons employed), medium-sized firms (50-249 persons employed), and large firms (250+ persons employed). The advantage of using Eurostat data is that the statistics are harmonised and comparable across countries. The disadvantage is that for some countries the data may be different from those published by national authorities.

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In 2025, there were estimated to be approximately **** million people employed by SMEs in Germany. Micro-sized enterprises that employed between zero and nine people employed **** million people in this year, small-sized businesses (10-49 employees) employed **** million people, while medium ones (50-249 employees) employed around **** million people.