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In 2015, South Africa was the EU's main supplier of citrus fruits (31 % of imported citrus fruits), grapes (26 %) apples and pears (30 %), while Chile led the imports of fresh strawberries and other berries (21 %) as well as cherries, apricots, plums and peaches (21 %). As for vegetables, Morocco was the EU's main external supplier of tomatoes (83 %), fresh pulses (46 %), lettuce (31 %), Israel was the leading supplier of carrots (57 %) and Kenya of cabbages (44 %), while Turkey led the imports for cucumbers (27 %) and China for onions and garlic (25 %). Read more...
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The 'integrated government finance statistics (GFS) presentation' is a dedicated presentation template for European Union (EU) government accounts that shows the economic activities of government in a manner suitable for fiscal analysis. It groups together all government statistics collected by Eurostat specifically for the general government sector (i.e. excluding public corporations) in the framework of national accounts, completed by statistical information gathered for administrative purposes. More ...
Updated 31/10/2016
Euro area annual inflation was 0.5 % in October 2016, up from 0.4 % in September 2016.
Looking at the main components of euro area inflation, services is expected to have the highest annual rate in October (1.1 %, stable compared with September), followed by food, alcohol & tobacco (0.4 %, compared with 0.7 % in September), non-energy industrial goods (0.3 %, stable compared with September) and energy (-0.9 %, compared with -3.0 % in September). More ...
Updated 31/10/2016
According to the estimates in this article, EU imports in 2014 were 2.4 times higher when expressed in RME than imports recorded in EW-MFA. Exports were 3.9 times higher. The derived global material footprint, also referred to as raw material consumption (RMC), was 13.9 tonnes per capita in the EU in 2014, or 5.3% higher than DMC. More ...
Updated 31/10/2016
The number of researchers in the EU-28 has increased in recent years: there were 1.76 million researchers (in full-time equivalents (FTE)) employed in the EU-28 in 2014 (see Table 1), which marked an increase of 441 thousand (or 33.6 %) when compared with 2004. The number of researchers more than doubled between 2004 and 2014 in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Malta, while the number fell in Finland, Croatia and Romania; note that there is a break in series for Slovenia, Finland and Romania among others. More ...
Updated 28/10/2016
This article presents an analysis of exchange rates and interest rates; which are some of Eurostat’s most frequently updated statistics. It is important to note that practically all of Eurostat’s data in monetary terms are denominated in euro (including statistics for European Union (EU) Member States that are not part of the euro area and data for non-member countries). More ...
Updated 28/10/2016
The level of current healthcare expenditure in Germany was EUR 309 billion in 2013, equivalent to 10.9 % of gross domestic product (GDP). In France, current healthcare expenditure (EUR 231 billion) was also equivalent to 10.9 % of GDP, while the Netherlands (11.0 %) and Sweden (11.1 %) were the only EU Member States for which data are available to report higher ratios; More ...
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New / updated articles
Updated 31/10/2016
The 'integrated government finance statistics (GFS) presentation' is a dedicated presentation template for European Union (EU) government accounts that shows the economic activities of government in a manner suitable for fiscal analysis. It groups together all government statistics collected by Eurostat specifically for the general government sector (i.e. excluding public corporations) in the framework of national accounts, completed by statistical information gathered for administrative purposes. More ...
Updated 31/10/2016
Euro area annual inflation was 0.5 % in October 2016, up from 0.4 % in September 2016.
Looking at the main components of euro area inflation, services is expected to have the highest annual rate in October (1.1 %, stable compared with September), followed by food, alcohol & tobacco (0.4 %, compared with 0.7 % in September), non-energy industrial goods (0.3 %, stable compared with September) and energy (-0.9 %, compared with -3.0 % in September). More ...
Updated 31/10/2016
According to the estimates in this article, EU imports in 2014 were 2.4 times higher when expressed in RME than imports recorded in EW-MFA. Exports were 3.9 times higher. The derived global material footprint, also referred to as raw material consumption (RMC), was 13.9 tonnes per capita in the EU in 2014, or 5.3% higher than DMC. More ...
Updated 31/10/2016
The number of researchers in the EU-28 has increased in recent years: there were 1.76 million researchers (in full-time equivalents (FTE)) employed in the EU-28 in 2014 (see Table 1), which marked an increase of 441 thousand (or 33.6 %) when compared with 2004. The number of researchers more than doubled between 2004 and 2014 in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Malta, while the number fell in Finland, Croatia and Romania; note that there is a break in series for Slovenia, Finland and Romania among others. More ...
Updated 28/10/2016
This article presents an analysis of exchange rates and interest rates; which are some of Eurostat’s most frequently updated statistics. It is important to note that practically all of Eurostat’s data in monetary terms are denominated in euro (including statistics for European Union (EU) Member States that are not part of the euro area and data for non-member countries). More ...
Updated 28/10/2016
The level of current healthcare expenditure in Germany was EUR 309 billion in 2013, equivalent to 10.9 % of gross domestic product (GDP). In France, current healthcare expenditure (EUR 231 billion) was also equivalent to 10.9 % of GDP, while the Netherlands (11.0 %) and Sweden (11.1 %) were the only EU Member States for which data are available to report higher ratios; More ...
Did you know that....
In 2015, South Africa was the EU's main supplier of citrus fruits (31 % of imported citrus fruits), grapes (26 %) apples and pears (30 %), while Chile led the imports of fresh strawberries and other berries (21 %) as well as cherries, apricots, plums and peaches (21 %). As for vegetables, Morocco was the EU's main external supplier of tomatoes (83 %), fresh pulses (46 %), lettuce (31 %), Israel was the leading supplier of carrots (57 %) and Kenya of cabbages (44 %), while Turkey led the imports for cucumbers (27 %) and China for onions and garlic (25 %). Read more...
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