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In 2022, the total gross weight of seaborne freight handled in all EU ports was estimated at 3.48 billion tonnes, which was an increase of 0.8% compared with 2021 (3.45 billion tonnes). Pandemic disruptions led to a 7.3% fall in 2020 (compared with 2019), but 2021 (+3.9%) was already a more positive year, with data […]

In 2022, the EU spent €352 billion on research & development (R&D), 6.34% more than in the previous year (€331bn) and 48.52% more than in 2012 (€237bn). When looking at R&D intensity, i.e. R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP, data show a slight decrease from 2.27% in 2021 to 2.22% in 2022. Among the […]

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In 2022, the EU’s gender employment gap was 10.7 percentage points (pp), 0.2 pp lower than in 2021. The gender employment gap is defined as the difference between the employment rates of men and women aged 20-64. A variety of reasons cause gender disparities in employment, such as unpaid care responsibilities of women, hiring discrimination, […]

EU farms produced an estimated 160.0 million tonnes of raw milk in 2022, indicating a year-on-year decrease of 0.3 million tonnes. This...

In August 2023, 91,735 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in EU countries, a 19% increase compared with August 2022 (77,145).  There were also 5,660 subsequent applicants, representing an 8% decrease compared with August 2022 (6 165). This information comes from the monthly asylum data published by Eurostat. The article presents a handful […]

Between 1 January 2021 and 1 January 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU’s population decreased by 265 257 people. This reduction could be attributed to natural population changes (more deaths than births), as net migration plus adjustment remained positive (more people entered the EU rather than left it). In addition, the pandemic played a role. […]

EU farms produced an estimated 160 million tonnes of raw milk in 2022, indicating a year-on-year decrease of 0.3m tonnes. This relative stability contrasted with the steady growth in production since 2010. The vast majority of raw milk (149.9m tonnes) was delivered to dairies, the rest being used directly on farms. It was used to […]

In 2021, there were 19,917 road fatalities on EU roads, equivalent to 45 road fatalities per million inhabitants.  The EU region with the highest rate of road fatalities at NUTS 2 level was the French outermost region of Guadeloupe, recording 159 road fatalities per million inhabitants, followed by Severozapaden in north-west Bulgaria (133) and Guyane, […]

In the third quarter of 2023, the number of bankruptcy declarations of EU businesses decreased by 5.8% compared with the previous quarter. Overall, the number of bankruptcy declarations in 2023 has been higher since the pre-pandemic period (i.e. the fourth quarter of 2019).  In the same period, registrations of new businesses slightly increased for the […]