{"id":23966,"date":"2025-08-26T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/23966\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:14:09","slug":"firefighting-in-the-eu-390-600-professionals-in-2024-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/23966\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighting in the EU: 390 600 professionals in 2024 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, the EU<\/a> countries combined had 390 600 professional firefighters, representing 0.19% of the total EU employment. Compared with 2023, the number of firefighters increased by 28 200.<\/p>\n

Among the 20 EU countries with available data, Croatia registered the highest share of firefighters in total employment (0.45%). Greece followed with 0.41%, ahead of Czechia with 0.34%.<\/p>\n

The lowest shares were registered in the Netherlands (0.07%), Denmark (0.08%) and Sweden (0.10%).<\/p>\n

\"Share<\/a><\/p>\n

Source dataset:\u00a0\u00a0ad hoc EU Labour Force Survey extraction<\/a><\/p>\n

Across the EU, 75.2% of all professional firefighters were aged 15 to 49. That\u2019s a noticeably younger workforce compared with the total EU employment, where only 64.8% of workers fall into that age group.<\/p>\n

EU governments spent \u20ac40.6 billion on fire-protection services in 2023<\/p>\n

In 2023, EU governments spent \u20ac40.6 billion on \u2018fire-protection services\u2019, reflecting an 8.5% increase in the general government expenditure<\/a> on this function compared with 2022 (\u20ac37.4 billion).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The increase in expenditure on fire-protection services in absolute numbers is however in line with the increases in other functions, so that fire-protection services have consistently accounted for 0.5% of total government expenditure since 2017.<\/p>\n

\"General<\/a><\/p>\n

Source datasets: gov_10a_exp<\/a> and\u00a0\u00a0ad hoc calculation<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2023, Romania had the highest share of expenditure on fire-protection services at 0.9% of general government total expenditure, followed by Estonia and Greece with 0.7% each.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By contrast, Denmark reported the lowest share of expenditure on fire-protection services (0.1%), followed by Malta (0.2%), Portugal and Austria (both 0.3%).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, the EU countries combined had 390 600 professional firefighters, representing 0.19% of the total EU employment.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[79,5720,20164,18,20163,19,17,227,12996,5723],"class_list":{"0":"post-23966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-data-driven-news","10":"tag-economy-and-finance","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-gov","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-jobs","16":"tag-lfs","17":"tag-population-and-social-conditions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}