United Kingdom: accommodation & food service activities industry employees 2009-2018

Published by Statista Research Department, Apr 13, 2024

In 2018, the number of employees in the accommodation and food service industry in the United Kingdom increased by 54,691 employees (+2.46 percent) since 2017. Therefore, the number of employees in the United Kingdom reached a peak in 2018 with 2,273,953 employees. Notably, the number of employees in this industry continuously increased over 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.

Total number of employees in the accommodation and food service activities industry in the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2018

Characteristic	Number of employees
2018	2,273,953
2017	2,219,262
2016b	2,073,859
2015	2,059,166
2014	1,966,335
2013	1,884,924
2012	1,823,676
2011	1,779,432
2010	1,776,181
2009	1,701,509

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March 2024

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2009 to 2018

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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