About
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
In official European statistics:
- SMEs can currently only be identified by employment size as enterprises with fewer than 250 persons employed.
- they represent around 99 % of all enterprises and employ an increasing number of persons.
- they account for around two-thirds of total employment in the EU
- 94 % are independent. (not controlled or control another enterprise)
Articles Related
Category
| Enterprise category | Persons employed | Turnover or | Balance sheet total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium | < 250 | ≤ € 50 m | ≤ € 43 m |
| Small | < 50 | ≤ € 10 m | ≤ € 10 m |
| Micro | < 10 | ≤ € 2 m | ≤ € 2 m |
Stat
Europe
The 2016 microdata linking (MDL) project linked data from
- structural business statistics (SBS),
- international trade in goods statistics (ITGS),
- business demography (BD)
- and business registers (BRs).
Others:
Data
- sbs_sc_sca_r2 - 144 data tables - Annual enterprise statistics by size class for special aggregates of activities (NACE Rev. 2)