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In 2025, the EU imported €534.1 billion worth of high-tech products and exported €566.5 billion, resulting in a trade surplus of €32.4 billion. After 4 consecutive years of trade deficits (2020-2023), the EU trade balance in high-tech products has been positive for 2 years in a row.  Since 2015, ...

In 2025, the EU employment rate of people aged 20-64 rose to 76.1%, the highest level recorded since the series began in 2009, bringing it to just 1.9 percentage points below the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan target for 2030 (78.0%). Almost half (47.1%) of all EU regions, classifie...

On 1 January 2025, 58.3% of the EU population was of working age (people aged 20 to 64). In 39 EU regions, classified at level 3 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS), the share of the working-age population was at least 63.0%. These regions were mainly in Germany (22 reg...

Statistics can open the door to a world of discovery and even new skills. With this in mind, we have revamped the education corner to make it more engaging and practical to all users, regardless of age, professional background or level of statistical knowledge. Welcome to the European statistics ...

In 2024, 5.30 million teachers worked in primary and secondary schools across the EU, 36 500 more than in 2023. Most of the teachers were women (72.9%), with men making up the remaining 27.1%.  The teaching workforce is ageing: 40.4% of teachers were aged 50 years or over, and only 8.0% were unde...

Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in the EU, and screening and other preventive measures are essential to lowering the impact of the disease and reducing mortality rates.  In 2024, Denmark (82.1%), Sweden (82.0%) and Finland (81.6%) recorded the highest breast cancer screeni...

Between April and June 2026, tourists spent 258.8 million nights in EU short-term rental accommodation booked through Airbnb, Booking or Expedia. The total number of guest nights in the second quarter of 2026 increased by 5.3% (+13.1 million) compared with the same quarter of 2025 and by 23.9% (+...

In the second quarter of 2026, house prices in the EU rose by 4.7%, while rents increased by 3.0% compared with the second quarter of 2025. Compared with the first quarter of 2026, house prices increased by 1.2% and rents by 0.7%. Between 2025 and the second quarter of 2026, house prices in the E...

In 2024, there were 34 million enterprises in the EU, of which 3.5 million were created that year. At the same period, 3.1 million enterprise deaths were registered. This resulted in an enterprise birth rate of 10.4% and a death rate of 9.2%. This information comes from data on business demograph...

In 2025, the EU imported 2.9 million tonnes of coffee from non-EU countries. The amount increased slightly compared with a decade ago, in 2015 (2.7 million tonnes), but the value increased significantly from €8.6 billion to €18.7 billion last year. Most of the coffee imported in 2025 came from 2 ...

In the second quarter of 2026, EU countries issued orders to leave to 110 335 non-EU citizens, and 36 825 people were returned to third countries following an order.  Compared with the second quarter of 2025, the number of non-EU citizens ordered to leave declined by 12.0%, while the number of pe...