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Unit E.5: Energy

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Unit ESTAT.E.5: Energy

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Energy productivity measures the amount of economic output that is produced per unit of gross available energy. The gross available energy represents the quantity of energy products necessary to satisfy all demand of entities in the geographical area under consideration (including deliveries to international marine bunkers, international aviation and in case of road transport "fuel tourism"). The economic output is either given as in the unit of Euros in chain-linked volumes to the reference year 2010 at 2010 exchange rates or in the unit PPS (Purchasing Power Standard). The former is used to observe the evolution over time for a specific region while the latter allows comparing Member States in a given year.

The indicator is part of the EU Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator set. It is used to monitor progress towards SDG 7 on affordable and clean energy and SDG 12 on ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns. Indicator can be considered as similar to global SDG indicator 7.3.1 "Energy intensity measured in terms of primary energy and GDP".

Energy productivity is calculated as units of GDP per unit of energy. Indicator expressed in chain linked volumes is more suitable to be used to compare different time periods in one country, while PPS values are more suitable to be used to compare across countries in one specific year.

Energy data are from Eurostat's dataset nrg_bal_s and GDP data are from Eurostat's dataset nama_10_gdp.

Dataset: Simplified energy balances [nrg_bal_s]

• SIEC: TOTAL
• NRG_BAL: GAE
• UNIT: KTOE

Dataset GDP and main components (output, expenditure and income) [nama_10_gdp]

• NA_ITEM: B1GQ
• UNIT: CLV10_MEUR and CP_MPPS_EU27_2020

Resulting calculations are rounded to 2 decimal places.

[EUR_KGOE] Euro per kilogram of oil equivalent (KGOE)
[PPS_KGOE] Purchasing power standard (PPS) per kilogram of oil equivalent

The calendar year (January - December)

The indicator is produced according to the high-level quality standards of European Statistical System. While indirect indicators suggest overall accuracy of energy balance should be in general high, quantitative assessment of accuracy was not performed by Eurostat. Please see Related metadata for details on accuracy of the source datasets used to calculate this indicator.

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Please see Related metadata for specific information on source data used to calculate this indicator.

Every year

Revisions several time per year are possible.

T+2 years

All EU MS

Data are presented for all EU Member States and several non-EU countries.

All EU MS

Data are comparable between all EU Member States and between other presented countries.

> 10 years

All  EU Member States have long time series; for some non-EU countries time series are shorter.

> 4 data points

Comparability over time is ensured with a solid methodology harmonised on international level that is stable over long periods. Occasional breaks in time series are present due to the developments of statistical systems on national level and the level of detailed information (micro data) available at national level.

In general comparability is very high in last 10 years and for older periods slowly decreasing. In addition, introduction of new statistical information in the most recent data collections can lead to breaks in series until information is compiled and provided by reporting countries.

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Paper publications have been abolished.

Dissemination is maintained on Eurostat's database:

 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/energy/database

Information not available. Redissemination of this indicator is not monitored.

No flags are used in this indicator, please refer to source datasets for all specificities and particularities.
This dataset is not dynamicaly linked to source data and consequently data revisions are not immediately applied.