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% of active population
Description: These maps show the share of persons working in the information technology industry (measured as a share of a reporting country’s total active population) across the EU27 and neighbouring countries.
Analysis & Metadata
Analysis:
On average, the share of persons working in the information technology industry increased by 4.4% per year across the EU27 in the last ten years (of available data).Projection:
If the next decade is like the previous one, the share of persons working in the information technology industry will be around 2.7 percent by 2030on average across the EU27. Data timeline: 1995 – 2020
Data treatment:
- This data set has been merged with Eurostat’s active population data set [lfsa_ipga] to turn the data into data per number of active persons.
- This data has been parsed by a linear regression algorithm in order to complete any missing data with a likely statistical approximation (countries may be missing data for certain years for any number of reasons, see original source) and to produce statistical projections for the near future.
- The EU27 average has been weighted in accordance with population data.
Last updated: Sat 15 January 2022
Disclaimer: This data is taken from publicly available sources. Even though all reasonable endeavours have been made to ensure the reliability of the information presented, it is provided as is, without any guarantee of accuracy. Missing data may have been added using standard statistical approximation methods.