Archive:Yearbook abstract
- Latest update of text: April 2015. Planned article update: April 2016.
The online-only publication Europe in figures - Eurostat yearbook presents a comprehensive selection of statistical data on Europe. It may be viewed as an introduction to European statistics; it provides essential reading for those wishing to discover the vast range of data that is freely available on Eurostat’s website at: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat.
Thematic, temporal and spatial coverage
With hundreds of statistical tables, figures and occasional maps, the Eurostat yearbook covers the following areas: population; living conditions; health; education and training; the labour market; economy and finance; international trade; agriculture, forestry and fisheries; industry and services; innovation and information society; the environment; energy; and transport.
Most data in the Eurostat yearbook cover the latest available decade (eleven values), for example from 2003 to 2013.
Statistics are presented for the European Union (EU), the euro area (EA) and individual EU Member States, while some indicators are also provided for non-member countries, such as the EFTA member states and candidate countries to the EU, China, Japan and the United States (subject to availability). Indicators for the two potential EU candidates (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo[1]) are included in the updates from July 2014 onwards, when data are available.
Rolling update
There are around 85 articles that compose the Eurostat yearbook and these are updated throughout the year on a rolling basis depending upon major updates of data becoming available. Most of the articles are updated once a year, although some are updated twice a year and a few (typically based on data from biennial data sources) only once every two years.
Format and language versions
Since 2013 the Eurostat yearbook has no longer been available as a printed or PDF publication. In order to present the latest data the yearbook is made available on Statistics Explained (part of Eurostat’s website), as the online-only Eurostat yearbook.
The online-only Eurostat yearbook is available in English, German and French. As the original articles are drafted in English and the translations take some time, the German and French versions of each article are not always as up-to-date as the English version.
In addition, a selection of 17 main statistical articles from the Eurostat yearbook are available in Statistics Explained in 18 or 19 additional languages (besides German, English and French): Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian and Swedish. Croatian translations have become gradually available from November 2014 onwards.
Data extraction period
See the top of each article.
Editor-in-Chief
Jukka Piirto
Eurostat, Unit B4 — Dissemination
Contact details
Eurostat
Bâtiment Joseph Bech
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2721 Luxembourg
LUXEMBOURG
E-mail: estat-user-support@ec.europa.eu
Content production
The content of the Eurostat yearbook is produced by Eurostat and Informa sàrl (Giovanni Albertone, Simon Allen, Andrew Redpath)
More information
Please consult the Eurostat internet site (http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat)
Notes
- ↑ Kosovo under UN Security Council Resolution 1244: This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.