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Updated 27/06/2025
Updated 27/06/2025
The EU's real estate activities (Section L) numbered around 1.6 million enterprises in 2022, 4.1% more than in 2021, employing 2.7 million persons, an increase of 0.3% compared with the previous year. The real estate activities sector generated €275.1 billion of value added in 2022, an 3.3% increase compared with the previous year. In 2022, this sector's contribution to the business economy (Sections B to N and P to R, as well as Division S95 and S96) was 4.8% of the enterprise population, 1.7% of the employment, and 2.7% of value added. More ...
Updated 27/06/2025
The euro area accounted for 81.0% of the EU’s GDP in 2024 (when measured in PPS terms), down from 85.4% in 2005. In 2024, the 4 largest EU economies (Germany, France, Italy and Spain) accounted for just under three fifths (59.1%) of the EU’s GDP (in PPS terms), which was 5.3 percentage points lower than their combined share 19 years earlier (in 2005). Germany alone accounted for 21.5% of the EU’s GDP in 2024, down from 22.7% in 2005. The shares of 2 of the 3 other large EU countries fell more strongly between 2005 and 2024, down 2.2 points in Italy and 1.5 points in France; the fall in Spain was 0.4 points. More ...
Updated 27/06/2025
In 2023, 56% of people aged 16-74 years in the EU had at least basic overall digital skills, 24 percentage points (pp) below the 2030 target set in the Digital Decade. The highest proportions of people aged 16-74 years who had at least basic overall digital skills were found in the Netherlands (83%) and Finland (82%), followed by Ireland (73%), Denmark (70%) and Czechia (69%). On the other hand, the lowest were recorded in Romania (28%) and Bulgaria (36%). More ...