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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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SDG 5 - Gender equality

Updated 18/09/2018

Monitoring SDG 5 in an EU context focuses on the topics of gender-based violence, education, employment and leadership positions. As shown in Table 1, gender equality in the EU has improved in terms of leadership positions. The labour market participation of women has generally also increased over the past few years. However, the gender gap due to caring responsibilities has widened. In the area of education, progress towards gender equality has been mixed. More ...

SDG 5 - Gender equality (statistical annex)

Updated 18/09/2018

In 2016, women's gross hourly earnings were on average 16.2 % below those of men in the EU. Between 2011 and 2016, the gender pay gap decreased by 0.7 % per year on average. More ...

Statistics on European cities

Updated 13/09/2018

A functional urban area consists of a city and its surrounding commuting zone. On this basis, London (the capital city of the United Kingdom) was by far the most populous city in the EU, with 12.1 million inhabitants in 2015; for comparison there were 4.5 million people living in the Italian capital of Roma and its surrounding commuter zone. Bratislava (Slovakia) and London both reported a relatively high share of their populations being composed of working-age persons between 25 and 44 years, whereas in Roma, it appeared the largest age groups were slightly older, between 35 and 54 years. 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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SDG 5 - Gender equality

Updated 18/09/2018

Monitoring SDG 5 in an EU context focuses on the topics of gender-based violence, education, employment and leadership positions. As shown in Table 1, gender equality in the EU has improved in terms of leadership positions. The labour market participation of women has generally also increased over the past few years. However, the gender gap due to caring responsibilities has widened. In the area of education, progress towards gender equality has been mixed. More ...

SDG 5 - Gender equality (statistical annex)

Updated 18/09/2018

In 2016, women's gross hourly earnings were on average 16.2 % below those of men in the EU. Between 2011 and 2016, the gender pay gap decreased by 0.7 % per year on average. More ...

Statistics on European cities

Updated 13/09/2018

A functional urban area consists of a city and its surrounding commuting zone. On this basis, London (the capital city of the United Kingdom) was by far the most populous city in the EU, with 12.1 million inhabitants in 2015; for comparison there were 4.5 million people living in the Italian capital of Roma and its surrounding commuter zone. Bratislava (Slovakia) and London both reported a relatively high share of their populations being composed of working-age persons between 25 and 44 years, whereas in Roma, it appeared the largest age groups were slightly older, between 35 and 54 years. 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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