Only 26% of working EU residents produce products and goods (that is, they work in the sphere of production or in agriculture). The remaining 74% provide various services - from legal and cultural to medical and educational. And over the past 17 years, Europeans engaged in providing services, has become significantly more: in 2000, there were only 66%.

The largest number of workers in the non-manufacturing sector in the Netherlands is 81%. Approximately the same number (at least 80%) in 7 other EU countries: in Great Britain, Belgium, France, Denmark, Luxembourg, as well as in Malta and Cyprus, according to the European statistical agency Eurostat.