Denmark: accommodation & food service industry employees 2021

The number of employees in the accommodation and food service industry in Denmark increased by 12,769 employees (+11.77 percent) in 2021 in comparison to the previous year. While the number of employees increased significantly in the first phase of the observed period, the increase slowed down in the last years.
According to Eurostat employed persons are all persons aged 15 and over who performed work, even for just one hour per week, for pay, profit or family gain during the reference week or were not at work but had a job or business from which they were temporarily absent because of, for instance, illness, holidays, industrial dispute, and education or training.

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Total number of employees in the accommodation and food service activities industry in Denmark from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	121,221
2020	108,452
2019	128,622
2018	129,894
2017	123,471
2016b	119,191
2015	72,070
2014	67,890
2013	65,658
2012	62,500

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Release date

March 2024

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Region

Denmark

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to code I of CE Rev 2.

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