Insights into industry concentration in the EU

In 2023, industry concentration displayed a wide range of variation across sectors at EU level.

Industry concentration in this article is based on the EuroGroups Register (EGR) data and measures the extent to which an industry is dominated by 1 or more businesses. In this case, it focuses on employment concentration at the 4 largest multinational enterprise groups by statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE).

The 5 economic activities with the highest industry concentration in 2023 were recorded in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (20.8% of employment concentrated at the 4 largest enterprise groups), mining and quarrying (12.9%), water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities (11.7%), transportation and storage (9.8%) and financial and insurance activities (8.7%).

Source dataset: egr_conc

In contrast, activities in sectors such as construction, accommodation and food service activities and education recorded much lower concentration levels, around or below 2% in 2023.