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In 2020, 80% of adults in the EU used the internet daily

In 2020, 12% of employed people aged 20-64 in the EU usually worked from home, while this share had remained constant at around 5 or 6% over the past decade

On 1st of January 2020, there were slightly fewer than three adults of working age for every person aged 65 years or more

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The long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas is a European Commission initiative to develop a common European vision for 2040.

The Long term vision on rural areas was officially adopted. It is accompanied by the Staff Working Document to which Regio team contributed.

In 2020, among the 192 million employed people aged 15-64 years in the EU, over 12 million people (6% of all employed) commuted to work from one region to another within their country of residence, slightly up compared to 2019.

In 2020, the employment rate of the population aged 20-64 living in the EU was generally lower for non-EU citizens (57.2%) than for nationals (73.3%) and citizens of other EU Member States (73.0%).

The four EU regions with the highest primary income per capita in 2018 were all in Germany: Oberbayen, Stuttgart, Darmstadt and Hamburg.

530 000 additional deaths in the EU and EFTA countries in 2020, against the average number of deaths during the same time period between 2016 and 2019

The need to heat buildings has decreased, whereas the needs for cooling (air conditioning) in buildings increased over the last decades.

Female scientists and engineers in the EU accounted for 41% of total employment in science and engineering in 2019. At NUTS1 regional level, female scientists and engineers were in the majority in 13 EU regions: five regions of Spain: the North-East (53%), North-West, Canary Islands and East (all 52%) and Centre (51%), two regions of Poland: Eastern (54%) and Central (51%), North and South-East Bulgaria (57%), Madeira in Portugal (57%), Northern Sweden (56%), as well as Lithuania (55%), Latvia (53%) and Denmark (52%): all three single regions at this level of detail. At the other end of the scale, the smallest proportion of female scientists and engineers was recorded in Baden-Württemberg in Germany (29%) and Luxembourg (28%: a single region at this level of detail).

In 2019, regional GDP per capita, expressed in terms of national purchasing power standards (PPS), ranged from 32% of the European Union (EU) average in the North-West region of Bulgaria as well as Mayotte, an overseas region of France, to 260% in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. There is a considerable variation both between and within the EU Member States.