Due to the 17% increase in cultural employment in Greece in 2021 compared to 2020, as recorded, inter alia, in the Eurostat study 2019-2021, the Deputy Minister of Culture Nicholas Giatromanolakis stated the following:

“The upbeat news about cultural employment in our country reflects both the country’s human resources and the government’s heavy investment in the cultural and creative sector both during and after the pandemic. The government will continue to invest in contemporary cultural creativity and workers in the cultural and creative sector, with positive policies that protect labor, create new employment opportunities and development prospects for the sector, such as the recent example of stopping pretense: the cultural and creative sector is the first sector of the economy, in which we went to reduce the fee by 38% for those professionals who already have open books, and zero for those who had books, but closed during the crisis.

According to Eurostat, over the three years as a whole (and with different statistical characteristics for 2019, the year before the pandemic and the two pandemic years 2020, 2021), Greece has seen an 11.6% increase in employment in the cultural sector, ranking in the country’s ranking. fourth place among the best in the EU after Latvia, France and Portugal. Also, among other things, Eurostat data show that between 2019 and 2021 in Greece, employment in this sector increased by 15,000 people and reached 144,000 people in 2021.

It is also noted that in Greece in 2021, 39% of workers in the cultural and creative sector were self-employed.