Regional Statistics Newsletter

The Standing Committee of Regional and Urban Statistics (SCORUS) of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS), the Directorate General on Regional and Urban Policy and Eurostat kindly invites the statistical community to present abstracts for the in person conference (link below as main URL), to be held on June 5-6 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. Deadline for the abstract submission is 22 April, 2024, whereas the selection of the abstracts is foreseen on 6 May, 2024.

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In 2022, real GDP increased in 231 out of 242 EU regions, while decreases were noted in 11 regions. The region with the largest growth in GDP volume was in Algarve in Portugal, with +17.0%. Another Portuguese region ranked second highest, Região Autónoma da Madeira (+14.2%), followed by the Southern region of Ireland (+13.5%), Illes Balears in Spain (+12.5%) and Province Brabant Wallon in Belgium (+10.9%).

In 2022, the life expectancy at birth in the EU was 80.6 years, up by 0.5 years from 2021. The EU region with the highest life expectancy at birth was the Spanish region of Comunidad de Madrid (85.2 years), followed by Provincia Autonoma di Trento in Italy (84.4 years), Ile de France in France (84.1 years), Stockholm in Sweden (84.0 years), and Comunidad Foral de Navarra in Spain (83.9 years).

The EU's largest metropolitan region in 2023 was Paris in France, with a population of 12.4 million people, followed by the Spanish metropolitan regions of Madrid and Barcelona with 6.9 and 5.8 million inhabitants, respectively. Berlin, with a total population of 5.5 million, and the Ruhrgebiet metropolitan region in Germany (5.1 million residents), completed the top 5.

The highest shares of women employed in science and technology occupations in 2022, in NUTS1 regions, were observed in Lithuania (a single region at NUTS 1 level) (64.1%), in the French region of Corse (63.9%) and in Latvia (also a single region at NUTS 1 level) (62.7%).

In 224 out of 273 EU regions, participation in social networks stood above 50%. The highest shares were registered in 6 Danish regions: Midtjylland (93%), Hovedstaden (the capital region) (92%), Syddanmark (90%), Nordjylland and Sjælland (both 89%).