By making the area of countries proportional to their agricultural workforce, this map shows the spatial distribution of the total estimated economically active population across Europe who are working in agriculture. Turkey has by far the largest number, followed by Romania, Poland, France and Italy. In relative terms, the largest share of workers in agriculture in any one nation state as a proportion of each country’s total economically active population is in Albania (48.0%), followed by Romania (31.6%), Turkey (25.5%) and Kosovo (23.6%). The smallest percentages are in Sweden, the United Kingdom, Malta and Germany (all below 2%).

There are an estimated 69 million people in Europe working in industry. This category is mainly made up of people involved in manufacturing. About 15% of the industrial workforce of Europe are in Germany, Europe’s leading industrial power. About 10% are in Italy and another 10% in France. In relative terms, the country with the largest number working in industry as a proportion of its total economically active population is the Czech Republic (38.6%), followed by Bulgaria (35.2%) and Slovenia (35.0%), all former communist countries. The smallest percentage of a country’s workers employed in industry is in Andorra (4.7%).

At first glance this map looks very similar to the next map showing people working in service occupations. However, there are differences: for example, the number of workers in the industrial sector is larger in Turkey and smaller in the UK compared with those in services.