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  • News articles General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 6 June 2025

European Statistics Competition video winners

We are excited to announce the results of the European Statistics Competition 2025, held in the 2024-2025 school year.  Nearly 27 000 students from 21 countries signed up for the eighth edition of this statistical literacy contest, the highest number since the start of the competition. After a ...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 6 June 2025

Work after retirement more common among self-employed

Data from the labour force survey, collected from old-age pensioners in the EU in 2023, show that 56.4% of self-employed worked after having received their first old-age pension.  Among the EU countries, the percentage of self-employed old-age pensioners who continued to work or re-entered the l...
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  • News articles Environment and energy
  • PUBLISHED: 5 June 2025

EU Green Week: environmental monitoring with data

EU environmental and sustainable policies require effective data and analyses. Eurostat plays an essential role by providing official statistics, some of which pertain to waste and circular economy. For example, Eurostat data on food waste, packaging, and municipal waste show the course of our so...
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  • News articles General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 4 June 2025

EU sustainable development: bright spots and challenges

Today, Eurostat releases the publication ‘Sustainable development in the European Union - monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context - 2025 edition’. This publication provides readers with a statistical overview of the EU’s progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (...
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  • News articles International trade
  • PUBLISHED: 3 June 2025

Increase in trade in research & development services

In 2023, EU countries exported €59.4 billion worth of research and development services to countries outside of the EU and imported €102.6 billion, resulting in a €43.2 billion trade deficit. Both exports and imports increased compared with 2022, by 9.0% and 16.6%, respectively. The United State...
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  • News articles Industry, trade and services
  • PUBLISHED: 2 June 2025

EU tourism nights in the first quarter of 2025

In the first quarter of 2025, there were 452.4 million overnight stays in tourist accommodations across the EU, marking a slight decline of 0.2% compared with the same quarter of 2024. January recorded 139.0 million nights (+3.5% compared with January 2024), February 147.7 million (-0.8%) and Mar...
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  • News articles General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 28 May 2025

Join our webinar on Sustainable Development Goals

Eurostat invites you to join the webinar on the EU’s progress towards its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will take place on Friday, 6 June 2025, from 10:15 to 11:00 CEST. The webinar will explore the key findings of the 2025 “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - monitoring report”...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 28 May 2025

24% of EU children at poverty risk or social exclusion

In 2024, 19.5 million children in the EU were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. This figure represented 24.2% of children under the age of 18, down by 0.6 percentage points (pp) from 2023 (24.8%).  At the country level, in 2024, the highest values were reported in Bulgaria (35.1%), Spain (...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 27 May 2025

Employment gaps for women & people with disabilities

In 2024, employment inequalities linked to disability, gender and origin were recorded in the EU. The gender employment gap in the EU was 10.0 percentage points (pp), with an employment rate of 80.8% for men and 70.8% for women. The gap was 0.2 pp lower than in 2023 and 1.1 pp lower compared with...
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  • News articles General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 26 May 2025

Celebrating 20 years of the ‘European Statistics Code of Practice’

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the European Statistics Code of Practice, which was adopted by Eurostat and the National Statistical Institutes of the European Statistical System on 25 February 2005. The adoption marked a pivotal step in ensuring high-quality, reliable, and transparent Eu...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 23 May 2025

New lows for EU unemployment in 2024

In 2024, the unemployment rate for 15-74 years old in the EU fell to 5.9% of the labour force, marking a historic low since the beginning of the time series in 2009. The long-term unemployment rate, as a percentage of the labour force, was 1.9% in 2024. This was similarly the lowest level in the...
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