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24. Oktober 2018

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Are you a student? Perhaps you are learning about statistics and economics at school? Are some concepts difficult to understand? Then why not have a look below at several tools developed by Eurostat to present statistics in an easy way:

For example, would you like to understand how to calculate one inflation rate when there are so many different products and price changes? Have a look at this video:

 

Or do you want to know what is included in GDP? Have a look at this video:

 

More generally, if you want to know more about statistical concepts and vocabulary, go to "Statistics 4 Beginners" where statistics are explained in a very easy way.

Now that you know a bit about statistics and economic indicators, would you like to guess recent trends for indicators such as GDP and inflation? Go to our interactive visualisation where you can guess how six different economic indicators have been changing in your country:

Visualisation tool to compare forecast and actual GDP figures

 

Would you like to learn about the main changes in the European economy in the last 20 years? Then have a look at our recent digital publication "The European economy since the start of the millennium" which contains easy explanatory texts and interactive visualisations:

Link to the interactive visualisation on the EU economy since 2000

 

For more information please contact us: estat-user-support@ec.europa.eu