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Did you know that population statistics not only include the number of people in your country, but also key life events, such as births, deaths and life expectancy? Do you wonder how governments and public services use this information to plan and make decisions that will affect your life?  Get ...

In 2024, non-financial corporations (businesses whose main economic activity is non-financial) in the EU had a profit share of 40.1%, down by 1.6 percentage points from the previous year. Profit share is the proportion of the value added by a business that remunerates capital (gross operating sur...

In September 2025, compared with August, the total market production increased by 0.4% in the EU and by 0.1% in the euro area. The total market production index (TMPI) is a composite indicator that combines 4 short-term business statistics indicators covering most of the market economy, i.e. pro...

Want to stay on top of the latest housing trends in the EU? Do you want to know where to find the data on housing and how to interpret them? Join our webinar on housing on Friday, 12 December, from 11.00 to 11.45 CET. In this webinar, you’ll have the opportunity to explore our housing-related pu...

In 2024, the EU spent an estimated €403.1 billion on research & development (R&D), indicating a 3.6% increase from 2023 (€389.2 billion). Compared with 2014, R&D expenditure grew by 62.2% from €248.6 billion, showing a steady rise in the last decade.  R&D intensity, defined as R&D expenditure as...

In 2024, the EU sea ports handled around 3.4 billion tonnes of freight (total gross weight). While this freight volume was the same as in 2023, it remained lower than the highest value recorded in the decade 2014-2024 (3.6 billion tonnes in 2019). Rotterdam in the Netherlands maintained its posi...

Between 2021 and 2023, 80% of enterprises in the EU experienced that their global value chains were affected by at least 1 constraint or underwent reorganisation. These results come from the first global value chains survey carried out under the European business statistics regulation, building o...

Did you know that in 2024, in the EU, nearly a quarter (23.9%) of people aged 16 and older had a disability (activity limitation)? The numbers rise sharply with age – while only 7.1% of those aged 16-24 reported a disability, the share was 72.3% among those aged 85+. Did you know that 28.7% of pe...

In 2023, there were 3 298 fatal accidents and 2.82 million non-fatal accidents at work in the EU.  The highest share of fatal work accidents in the EU was registered in public areas (25.0%; 825 fatal accidents), followed by industrial sites (19.8%; 654), construction sites, opencast quarries or ...

In 2024, the value of sold postcards in the EU was €60.0 million, down 15% compared with 2023 (€69 million).  Since 2014, there has been a decline in the value of sold postcards. However, during the global pandemic, this number increased and reached the highest level of the past decade. From 202...

In 2023, the EU’s total agricultural output was valued at €537 billion.    Data show that 5 regions in the EU, classified at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2), have a total agricultural output value above €9 billion. The highest output value was in Andalucí...