4 . L’Oréal Group social data EMPLOYEES BY GEOGRAPHIC ZONE  (1) BREAKDOWN OF EMPLOYEES BY TYPE OF CONTRACT BY GEOGRAPHIC ZONE (1) Excluding recent acquisitions. See the methodology notes in section 4.5. of this document. 36,322 35,150 34,501   The Statutory Auditors have expressed reasonable assurance about this indicator. Europe 2019 2020 2021 8,684 8,444 8,594  Latin America 14,427 13,437 13,747  North America 20,335 20,330 20,816  SAPMENA - SSA 8,139 87,907 7,726 7,594  North Asia TOTAL 85,087 85,252  North America North Asia Latin America 7,888 251 74,170 13,737 7,536 190 71,516 13,571 SAPMENA - SSA TOTAL 7,406 188 71,481 13,771 13,966 461 13,007 430 9,480 10,855 8,986 11,344 253 235 1 917 1 372 Europe 2019 2020 2021 8,431 8,209 33,778 34,405 1 476 33,025 362 8,232 13,304 443 9,514 11,302 Permanent contract Temporary contract 230 L ’ ORÉAL I UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2021 L’ORÉAL’S SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY Policies, performance indicators  and results