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Bioeconomy employment and value added: 2023 data - Infographic

View 2023 data on employment and value added for the European bioeconomy in an infographic.

  • Publication | 2025
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Infographic with updated 2023 data for jobs and growth of the EU bioeconomy

The infographic provides updated data on employment and value added of the European bioeconomy based on the dataset from Lasarte-López et al. (2025) (http://data.europa.eu/89h/7d7d5481-2d02-4b36-8e79-697b04fa4278) and the methodology described in Ronzon et al., 2020 (https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114507).

In 2023, the European bioeconomy employed 17.1 million people and generated €863 billion of value added.

Infographic on jobs and growth in the EU bioeconomy 2012-2023
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19 Nov 2025

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