Regional Statistics Newsletter

Eurostat is co-organising and moderating a United Nations Statistical Commission’s side event on 1 February at 15:00 CET. Join the webinar and hear from experts around the world on applying the degree of urbanization – a new methodology defining cities, urban and rural areas. Since 2020 several countries implemented the methodology. The session will summarize the lessons learned as well as the way forward. Registration is by the link below.

In 2021, the EU’s crude rate of natural population change was -2.7 per 1 000 people. At the NUTS 3 level, 980 regions out of 1 164, for which data are available, had a negative rate of natural population change, 173 regions registered a positive rate and 11 regions saw no change (same number of births as deaths).

The gender employment gap is defined as the difference between the employment rates of men and women aged 20-64. In 2022, the EU’s gender employment gap was 10.7 percentage points (pp), 0.2 pp lower than in 2021. There were only two EU regions, among those classified at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2), that registered a higher employment rate among women in 2022: the Capital Region of Lithuania (Sostinės regionas) and South Finland (Etelä-Suomi) in Finland.

In nearly 3 of 4 EU regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2), August was the month with the highest concentration in the number of nights spent (170 out of the 242 EU NUTS 2 regions). It was followed by July in 62 EU regions, covering most of northern Europe and parts of Belgium, Czechia, Germany, France, Italy, Hungary and Slovakia. The EU region with the highest level of seasonality concentrated in July and August was Calabria, in Italy, with 64.8%.

Cereals and milk are key agricultural products in the EU. The EU region that produced cereals with the highest value in 2021 was Castilla y León in Spain (€2. 3 billion). The region that produced the highest value of milk in 2021 was Southern in Ireland (€2.4 billion), which was followed by Bretagne in France (€2.0 billion), and Lombardia in Italy (€1.8 billion).