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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 25 April 2025

Asylum decisions up by 7% in 2024

In 2024, EU countries granted protection status to 437 900 asylum seekers, a 7% increase compared with 2023 (409 530).  Among these persons, 42% received refugee status, 39% were given subsidiary protection, and 19% received humanitarian status. Compared with 2023, the number of refugee status g...
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  • News articles General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 25 April 2025

Eurostat 2024 user survey: high trust and satisfaction

Eurostat has just published the  report on its most recent user satisfaction survey that took place in 2024. As in our previous surveys, users were asked how they assessed various quality aspects of European statistics, how satisfied they were with the Eurostat website and its various products, a...
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  • News articles Science and technology
  • PUBLISHED: 24 April 2025

Digital content creation skills among girls in the EU

In 2023, girls aged 16-19 in the EU showed higher levels of digital content creation skills than the general population. The majority of girls copied or moved files between folders, devices or on the cloud (78.6% of all girls aged 16-19), used word processing software (73.4%), created files inte...
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  • News articles Environment and energy
  • PUBLISHED: 24 April 2025

Exports in recyclable raw materials decreased in 2024

In 2024, exports of recyclable raw materials, which include recyclable waste and scrap as well as other secondary raw materials (by-products), from the EU to non-EU countries amounted to 35.7 million tonnes, an 8.2% decrease compared with the previous year. 2023 was a record year for exports of r...
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  • News articles Science and technology
  • PUBLISHED: 23 April 2025

Online shopping: more people buying print than e-books

When shopping online in 2024, print remained the preferred format for readers, with 14.7% of EU residents purchasing printed books, magazines or newspapers online in the 3 months before the survey - more than double the 6.8% who downloaded e-books or audiobooks.  The highest shares of residents ...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 23 April 2025

3 930 intentional homicides recorded in the EU in 2023

In 2023, there were 3 930 intentional homicides in the EU recorded by the police. It was an increase of 1.5% compared with 2022. However, there has been a slightly downward trend in the past decade and the number fell by 15.2% compared with 2013 (4 635).  Among the EU countries, the highest abso...
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  • News articles Economy and finance
  • PUBLISHED: 22 April 2025

Government finance statistics: updated information

In connection with the news releases for the Excessive deficit procedure (EDP) and the Government finance statistics (GFS) published today, a series of related documents have been updated: Note on the stock of liabilities in trade credits and advances;  Stock-flow adjustment note explaining th...
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  • News articles Economy and finance
  • PUBLISHED: 17 April 2025

Slower increase in egg prices over the past year

In March 2025, the price of eggs in the EU was on average 6.7% higher than in March 2024.   Among the EU countries, the highest increase in annual inflation for eggs was recorded in Czechia (+46.0% in March 2025 compared with March 2024), followed by Slovakia (+29.8%) and Hungary (+26.1%). Meanw...
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  • News articles General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 16 April 2025

European Statistical Monitor: April edition

Today, Eurostat released the European Statistical Monitor, a dashboard with short-term indicators covering different areas, such as economy, environment, business, health and work. This monthly updated dashboard is designed to track developments within the EU as a whole and its members, as well ...
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  • News articles Transport
  • PUBLISHED: 16 April 2025

Most goods transported by sea within the EU in 2023

In 2023, roughly two-thirds (67.4%) of all freight transported within the EU territory was by sea when considering the amount of goods and the travel distance (tonne-kilometres). Road freight transport accounted for 25.3% of all freight, while rail transport represented 5.5%.  Inland waterways ac...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 15 April 2025

66 800 asylum applications in January 2025

In January 2025, 66 800 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in EU countries, marking an 8% increase compared with December 2024 (62 075) and a 24% decrease compared with January 2024 (87 890).  There were also 8 080 subsequent applicants, represent...
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