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As of 31st December 2005, the EADS workforce was composed of 113,210 employees. It has globally increased by 2.3% compared to 2004, with higher rates of increase registered at Airbus and Eurocopter.
In 2005, 98% of the workforce was permanent employees. Depending on country and hierarchy level, the average working time is between 35 and 40 hours a week.
In 2005, 7,843 employees worldwide entered employment with EADS (4,952 in 2004), of which 4,018 were employed by Airbus. At the same time, 5,471 employees left EADS (4,108 in 2004).
In total, 97% of EADS’ total workforce is located in Europe on more than 80 industrial sites.
Workforce by Division and by Geography
The tables below set out the number of EADS employees by business sector and by geographic region. Employees of companies accounted for by the proportionate method (such as ATR, MBDA, LFK) are included in the tables on the same proportionate basis.
The figures for 2004 and 2003 have been adjusted in order to reflect the new organisational structure which occurred in 2005; “Other businesses” includes EADS Sogerma, EADS Socata and ATR.
| EADS Employees by Division |  Download Excel | ||
| 31st December 2005 | 31st December 2004 | 31st December 2003 | |
| Airbus | 54,721 | 51,959 | 49,520 |
| Defence and Security Systems | 23,237 | 24,268 | 24,844 |
| Eurocopter | 12,755 | 11,850 | 11,543 |
| Military Transport Aircraft | 3,976 | 3,856 | 3,428 |
| Space | 10,985 | 11,053 | 11,991 |
| HQ, Research Centre and other businesses | 7,536 | 7,676 | 7,809 |
| Total EADS | 113,210 | 110,662 | 109,135 |
| EADS employees by geographic region | Download Excel | |||||
| 31st December 2005 | 31st December 2004 | 31st December 2003 | ||||
| Amount | In percentage | Amount | In percentage | Amount | In percentage | |
| France | 43,286 | 38.2% | 42,807 | 38.7% | 42,858 | 39.3% |
| Germany | 41,438 | 36.6% | 40,325 | 36.4% | 41,103 | 37.7% |
| Spain | 8,710 | 7.7% | 8,435 | 7.6% | 8,063 | 7.4% |
| U.K. | 14,297 | 12.6% | 14,045 | 12.7% | 13,125 | 12.0% |
| Italy | 729 | 0.7% | 734 | 0.7% | 682 | 0.6% |
| U.S. | 1,877** | 1.7% | 2,166 | 2.0% | 1,851*** | 1.7% |
| Other Countries* | 2,873 | 2.5% | 2,150 | 1.9% | 1,453**** | 1.3% |
| Total EADS | 113,210 | 100% | 110,662 | 100.0% | 109,135 | 100.0% |
| (*) | The “Other countries” figure includes employees from 13 other countries. |
| (**) | This decrease is mostly due to the disposal of EADS Telecom and EADS Aeroframe services. |
| (***) | The figure previously reported (2,554) corresponded to Americas (U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Brazil). |
| (****) | The figure previously reported (750) did not include Canada, Mexico, and Brazil. |
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| 2005 | 2004 | |
| In percentage | In percentage | |
| France | 4% | 3.7% |
| Germany | 3.2% | 3.2% |
| Spain | 0.0% | 0.02% |
| U.K. | 1.4% | 0.82% |
| U.S. | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Other countries | NA | 1.3% |
| Total EADS | 3.2% | 2.87% |
