Facebook's economic impact in Europe in 2011
This statistic shows Facebook's European (EU-27) economic impact in 2011, measured in terms of gross value added. According to the source, both narrow effects and broad effects were factored into the value calculation. Broad effects include tech sales, platform effects and business participation; narrow effects include direct effects such as taxes or employee wages as well as indirect and induced effects. The website's broad and narrow effects created a total economic impact of 15.3 billion euros in Europe.