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Statistics Explained, your guide to European statistics. Statistics Explained is an official Eurostat website presenting statistical topics in an easily understandable way. Together, the articles make up an encyclopedia of European statistics for everyone, completed by a statistical glossary clarifying all terms used and by numerous links to further information and the latest data and metadata, a portal for occasional and regular users.

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Agriculture statistics at regional level

Updated 13/09/2018

There were 10.8 million farms in the EU-28 in 2013. These were principally located in eastern parts of the EU, with approximately one third of the total (33.5 %) in Romania, while more than one in eight (13.2 %) were in Poland. The next highest shares were recorded in Italy (9.3% of the farms in the EU-28), Spain (8.9 %) and Greece (6.5 %), with none of the other EU Member States reporting shares in excess of 5.0 %. More ...

SDG 4 - Quality education

Updated 18/09/2018

Monitoring SDG 4 in an EU context focuses on the topics basic education, tertiary education and adult education. As Table 1 indicates, the EU has made a significant progress in increasing participation in basic and tertiary education. However, over the past few years, progress in adult education has been much slower, and the performance of EU pupils in the PISA test has further deteriorated. More ...

SDG 4 - Quality education (statistical annex)

Updated 18/09/2018

Figure 1 shows that the phenomenon of early school leaving is becoming less and less prevalent in the EU. The share of early leavers from education and training fell by an average of 3.1 % per year between 2002 and 2017. More ...

Causes of death statistics

Updated 19/09/2018

Between 2005 and 2015, there was an 11.5 % reduction in EU-28 standardised death rates relating to cancer for men and a 6.1 % reduction for women — see Figures 1 and 2. Larger declines were recorded in relation to deaths from ischaemic heart disease, where death rates fell by 30.3 % for men and 34.3 % for women More ...

ICT education - a statistical overview

New 19/09/2018

The EU-28 labour force is composed of persons who are in employment and those who are unemployed. In 2007, the EU-28 labour force (or the total number of economically active persons) that were in possession of an ICT education numbered 2.3 million persons; this number rose to 2.9 million persons by 2017 (see Figure 1). Of these, some 2.7 million persons aged 15-74 in the EU-28 were employed and in possession of an ICT education in 2017; by contrast, there were 237 thousand persons with an ICT education who were unemployed. More ...

Intra-EU trade in goods - recent trends

Updated 19/09/2018

In seven Member States (Cyprus, Poland, Bulgaria, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania and Slovakia) the value of exports of goods to partners in the EU-28 has increased more than 10 % annually between 2003 and 2017 and in another six (the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary, Croatia and the Netherlands) the annual average growth was between 5 % and 10 % More ...

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Agriculture statistics at regional level

Updated 13/09/2018

There were 10.8 million farms in the EU-28 in 2013. These were principally located in eastern parts of the EU, with approximately one third of the total (33.5 %) in Romania, while more than one in eight (13.2 %) were in Poland. The next highest shares were recorded in Italy (9.3% of the farms in the EU-28), Spain (8.9 %) and Greece (6.5 %), with none of the other EU Member States reporting shares in excess of 5.0 %. More ...

SDG 4 - Quality education

Updated 18/09/2018

Monitoring SDG 4 in an EU context focuses on the topics basic education, tertiary education and adult education. As Table 1 indicates, the EU has made a significant progress in increasing participation in basic and tertiary education. However, over the past few years, progress in adult education has been much slower, and the performance of EU pupils in the PISA test has further deteriorated. More ...

SDG 4 - Quality education (statistical annex)

Updated 18/09/2018

Figure 1 shows that the phenomenon of early school leaving is becoming less and less prevalent in the EU. The share of early leavers from education and training fell by an average of 3.1 % per year between 2002 and 2017. More ...

Causes of death statistics

Updated 19/09/2018

Between 2005 and 2015, there was an 11.5 % reduction in EU-28 standardised death rates relating to cancer for men and a 6.1 % reduction for women — see Figures 1 and 2. Larger declines were recorded in relation to deaths from ischaemic heart disease, where death rates fell by 30.3 % for men and 34.3 % for women More ...

ICT education - a statistical overview

New 19/09/2018

The EU-28 labour force is composed of persons who are in employment and those who are unemployed. In 2007, the EU-28 labour force (or the total number of economically active persons) that were in possession of an ICT education numbered 2.3 million persons; this number rose to 2.9 million persons by 2017 (see Figure 1). Of these, some 2.7 million persons aged 15-74 in the EU-28 were employed and in possession of an ICT education in 2017; by contrast, there were 237 thousand persons with an ICT education who were unemployed. More ...

Intra-EU trade in goods - recent trends

Updated 19/09/2018

In seven Member States (Cyprus, Poland, Bulgaria, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania and Slovakia) the value of exports of goods to partners in the EU-28 has increased more than 10 % annually between 2003 and 2017 and in another six (the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary, Croatia and the Netherlands) the annual average growth was between 5 % and 10 % More ...

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In 2017, among the EU-28 Member States, the Netherlands (30.4 %) was the largest importer from China and Germany (16.4 %) the largest exporter to China. Read more...

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Tourism statistics - characteristics of tourism trips

Trips made by EU-28 residents by main means of transport, 2016
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