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Bioeconomy employment and value added: 2021 data - Infographic

View 2021 data on employment and value added for the European bioeconomy in an infographic.

  • Publication | 2024

The infographic provides updated data on employment and value added of the European bioeconomy based on the dataset from Lasarte-López et al. (2024) (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 2021, the European bioeconomy employed 17.2 million people and generated EUR 728 billion of value added. 

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