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In 2016, healthy life years at birth for women in the EU-28 was between 54.9 years in Latvia and 73.3 years in Sweden, while that for men was between 52.3 years in Latvia and 73.0 years in Sweden. Read more...
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Updated 22/05/2019
Across the whole of the EU-28, less than one fifth (17.4 %) of the core working-age population living in their Member State of birth possessed at most a lower secondary level of education in 2018 (see Figure 4), while the corresponding share among foreign-born population of core working-age was 30.4 %.
In 2018, Italy (48.7 %), Spain (39.7 %) and Greece (39.1 %) had the highest proportions of foreign-born persons with low educational attainment, although in Italy and Spain a relatively high share of their native-born core working-age population also had at most a lower secondary level of educational attainment. More ...
Updated 21/05/2019
For household consumers (defined for the purpose of this article as medium-size consumers with an annual consumption within the range of 2 500 kWh < consumption < 5 000 kWh), electricity prices during the second half of 2018 were highest among the EU Member States in Denmark (EUR 0.3123 per kWh), Germany (EUR 0.3000 per kWh) and Belgium (EUR 0.2937 per kWh); see Figure 1. The lowest electricity prices were in Bulgaria (EUR 0.1005 per kWh), Lithuania (EUR 0.1097 per kWh) and Hungary (EUR 0.1118 per kWh). More ...
Updated 21/05/2019
For household consumers (defined for the purpose of this article as medium-sized consumers with an annual consumption within the range of 20 Gigajoules (GJ) < consumption < 200 GJ), natural gas prices during the second half of 2018 were highest among the EU Member States in Sweden, Italy and Denmark (see Figure 1), and lowest in Hungary, Romania and Croatia. More ...
Updated 20/05/2019
Throughout the period 2008-2018 there were relatively small fluctuations in the exchange rates between the euro and currencies of Bulgaria, Czechia and Sweden, with the overall appreciation of the euro between 2.6 % and 6.3 % during the period under consideration. By contrast, the euro depreciated slightly (0.04 %) against the Danish krone between 2008 and 2018, while the exchange rate between the euro and the Bulgarian lev was unchanged. More ...
Updated 20/05/2019
In 2007, total financial assets of EU-28 non-financial corporations represented 58.0 % of total financial liabilities. However, this ratio rose in successive years during the last 10 years, such that total financial assets represented 65.1 % of total financial liabilities by 2017. More ...
Updated 20/05/2019
The nitrogen fertiliser consumption per hectare of fertilised utilised agricultural area (UAA) increased during the period 2007 to 2017 in the EU-28, from 67.9 kg/ha in 2007 to 75.9 kg/ha in 2017 (Table 2). The highest increases in nitrogen consumption per hectare were reported for Bulgaria (125 %), Hungary (48 %), Romania (45 %) and Latvia (42 %). The largest reductions were found in Greece and Malta (both -16 %) and Croatia (-15 %). More ...
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Updated 22/05/2019
Across the whole of the EU-28, less than one fifth (17.4 %) of the core working-age population living in their Member State of birth possessed at most a lower secondary level of education in 2018 (see Figure 4), while the corresponding share among foreign-born population of core working-age was 30.4 %.
In 2018, Italy (48.7 %), Spain (39.7 %) and Greece (39.1 %) had the highest proportions of foreign-born persons with low educational attainment, although in Italy and Spain a relatively high share of their native-born core working-age population also had at most a lower secondary level of educational attainment. More ...
Updated 21/05/2019
For household consumers (defined for the purpose of this article as medium-size consumers with an annual consumption within the range of 2 500 kWh < consumption < 5 000 kWh), electricity prices during the second half of 2018 were highest among the EU Member States in Denmark (EUR 0.3123 per kWh), Germany (EUR 0.3000 per kWh) and Belgium (EUR 0.2937 per kWh); see Figure 1. The lowest electricity prices were in Bulgaria (EUR 0.1005 per kWh), Lithuania (EUR 0.1097 per kWh) and Hungary (EUR 0.1118 per kWh). More ...
Updated 21/05/2019
For household consumers (defined for the purpose of this article as medium-sized consumers with an annual consumption within the range of 20 Gigajoules (GJ) < consumption < 200 GJ), natural gas prices during the second half of 2018 were highest among the EU Member States in Sweden, Italy and Denmark (see Figure 1), and lowest in Hungary, Romania and Croatia. More ...
Updated 20/05/2019
Throughout the period 2008-2018 there were relatively small fluctuations in the exchange rates between the euro and currencies of Bulgaria, Czechia and Sweden, with the overall appreciation of the euro between 2.6 % and 6.3 % during the period under consideration. By contrast, the euro depreciated slightly (0.04 %) against the Danish krone between 2008 and 2018, while the exchange rate between the euro and the Bulgarian lev was unchanged. More ...
Updated 20/05/2019
In 2007, total financial assets of EU-28 non-financial corporations represented 58.0 % of total financial liabilities. However, this ratio rose in successive years during the last 10 years, such that total financial assets represented 65.1 % of total financial liabilities by 2017. More ...
Updated 20/05/2019
The nitrogen fertiliser consumption per hectare of fertilised utilised agricultural area (UAA) increased during the period 2007 to 2017 in the EU-28, from 67.9 kg/ha in 2007 to 75.9 kg/ha in 2017 (Table 2). The highest increases in nitrogen consumption per hectare were reported for Bulgaria (125 %), Hungary (48 %), Romania (45 %) and Latvia (42 %). The largest reductions were found in Greece and Malta (both -16 %) and Croatia (-15 %). More ...
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In 2016, healthy life years at birth for women in the EU-28 was between 54.9 years in Latvia and 73.3 years in Sweden, while that for men was between 52.3 years in Latvia and 73.0 years in Sweden. Read more...
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