{"version":1,"asset_type":"statistical_series","data_type":"time_series","slug":"europe-workplace-accidents-by-country","url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/europe-workplace-accidents-by-country","html_url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/europe-workplace-accidents-by-country/","title":"Workplace Accidents in Europe by Country (2024)","description":"Non-fatal accidents at work per 100,000 workers across 26 European countries in 2024: 2,958 in Portugal against 69 in Romania, a gap that says more about reporting than about safety. Eurostat data.","domain":"labor","category":"Labour & Employment","keywords":["Labour & Employment","Workplace Safety","Occupational Health","Europe","Eurostat"],"publisher":"Eurostat","frequency":"Annual","temporal_coverage":"2010/2024","unit":"per 100,000 workers","last_updated":"2026-07-25","last_updated_text":"25 July 2026","data_as_of":"2024","variable_measured":"Non-fatal accidents at work, incidence rate per 100,000 persons employed","license":"https://apiardata.com/data-license","is_accessible_for_free":true,"sources":[{"name":"Eurostat","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/HSW_N2_01/default/table"}],"meta":[{"label":"Frequency","value":"Annual"},{"label":"Reference year","value":"2024"},{"label":"Coverage","value":"2010–2024"},{"label":"Countries","value":"26"},{"label":"Last updated","value":"25 July 2026"}],"kpis":[{"label":"Average of the panel (2024)","value":"1,022","unit":"accidents per 100,000 workers","trend":{"direction":"down","value":"-16 vs 2023"}},{"label":"Highest","value":"2,958","unit":"Portugal"},{"label":"Lowest","value":"69","unit":"Romania"},{"label":"Countries ranked","value":"26","unit":"with a published figure"}],"series":[{"key":"value","label":"Average non-fatal accident rate at work"}],"observation_count":15,"observations":[{"period":"2010","value":1506},{"period":"2011","value":1481},{"period":"2012","value":1456},{"period":"2013","value":1379},{"period":"2014","value":1308},{"period":"2015","value":1297},{"period":"2016","value":1289},{"period":"2017","value":1268},{"period":"2018","value":1255},{"period":"2019","value":1220},{"period":"2020","value":1041},{"period":"2021","value":1127},{"period":"2022","value":1069},{"period":"2023","value":1038},{"period":"2024","value":1022}],"table":{"columns":[{"key":"rank","label":"#"},{"key":"country","label":"Country"},{"key":"value","label":"per 100,000 workers"},{"key":"yoyChange","label":"Change vs 2023"}],"rows":[{"rank":"1","country":"Portugal","value":"2,958","yoyChange":"-9"},{"rank":"2","country":"Spain","value":"2,616","yoyChange":"-74"},{"rank":"3","country":"France","value":"2,475","yoyChange":"-87"},{"rank":"4","country":"Denmark","value":"1,663","yoyChange":"+166"},{"rank":"5","country":"Slovenia","value":"1,596","yoyChange":"+21"},{"rank":"6","country":"Germany","value":"1,540","yoyChange":"-49"},{"rank":"7","country":"Belgium","value":"1,530","yoyChange":"-47"},{"rank":"8","country":"Luxembourg","value":"1,415","yoyChange":"-90"},{"rank":"9","country":"Finland","value":"1,352","yoyChange":"-44"},{"rank":"10","country":"Italy","value":"1,254","yoyChange":"-27"},{"rank":"11","country":"Netherlands","value":"1,093","yoyChange":"-58"},{"rank":"12","country":"Estonia","value":"900","yoyChange":"-46"},{"rank":"13","country":"Sweden","value":"892","yoyChange":"-23"},{"rank":"14","country":"Hungary","value":"728","yoyChange":"+36"},{"rank":"15","country":"Czechia","value":"725","yoyChange":"-20"},{"rank":"16","country":"Norway","value":"620","yoyChange":"+138"},{"rank":"17","country":"Malta","value":"574","yoyChange":"+8"},{"rank":"18","country":"Croatia","value":"472","yoyChange":"-97"},{"rank":"19","country":"Poland","value":"472","yoyChange":"+4"},{"rank":"20","country":"Slovakia","value":"429","yoyChange":"+5"},{"rank":"21","country":"Cyprus","value":"356","yoyChange":"-8"},{"rank":"22","country":"Latvia","value":"296","yoyChange":"-14"},{"rank":"23","country":"Lithuania","value":"281","yoyChange":"-134"},{"rank":"24","country":"Greece","value":"161","yoyChange":"+15"},{"rank":"25","country":"Bulgaria","value":"97","yoyChange":"+5"},{"rank":"26","country":"Romania","value":"69","yoyChange":"+6"}]},"qa":[{"question":"Which European country reports the most workplace accidents?","answer":"Portugal, at 2,958 non-fatal accidents per 100,000 workers in 2024, followed by Spain, France and Denmark. All four run insurance-based compensation schemes in which reporting an accident starts a benefit claim, so the incentive points toward recording. Their figures are closer to true incidence than the low ones at the bottom of the table are."},{"question":"Why do some European countries report so few workplace accidents?","answer":"Because a reported accident does different things in different systems. Where it triggers an insurance payment, it gets reported; where it mainly triggers a labour inspection or an employer penalty, under-reporting is the rational response for everyone involved. The clearest evidence is the fatal-accident ranking, where a death is far harder to leave unrecorded: Romania, Bulgaria and Greece sit at the very bottom of this table while several of them appear in the upper half of the fatal one. A country cannot have both Europe's safest workplaces and its highest death rate at work."},{"question":"What counts as a non-fatal accident at work?","answer":"An accident in the course of work resulting in at least four calendar days of absence. The four-day threshold is what makes the series comparable in principle: it filters out the minor incidents that different countries record with wildly different diligence. Commuting accidents are excluded, and the rate is expressed per 100,000 persons in employment across the all-sector NACE aggregate."}]}