Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
At a time when everyone is talking about the gradual disappearance of the written press, books and periodicals that are published on a monthly or more monthly basis, the European Statistical Office in Brussels, Eurostat, publishes figures indicating that in 2022, 891,600 people were employed in the European Union as authors, journalists or linguists. “These are people who are fluent in more than one language and work in related fields.” This represents an increase of 9.1% from the number recorded in 2017 of 816,800.
In 2022, the countries with the largest share of the EU population working in these fields were Germany (25.6%), France (12.0%), and Spain (9.1%). Malta, Cyprus, Latvia, Estonia and Luxembourg received less than 0.5% of the total EU quota each.
Since 2017, the highest increases in the number of people working as authors, journalists or linguists have been recorded in Lithuania (+166.0%), Finland (+31.5%) and Hungary (+30.8%). The highest declines were in Latvia (-35.6%), Estonia (34.3%), and Greece (-22.5%).
80,000 enterprises in the publishing industry in 2022
In 2022, there were 80,000 institutions engaged in publishing books and periodicals or carrying out other publishing activities.
The largest number of these companies were in France (23,469), Spain (5,981) and Germany (5,533). The lowest numbers were in Luxembourg (79), Cyprus (93), and Malta (105).
The largest increases between 2021 and 2022 were in France (38.9%), Malta (14.1%) and Latvia (4.8%). The largest declines were in Luxembourg (-16.0%), Denmark (-9.0%) and Poland (-7.8%).