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In 2022, agricultural output in the EU was valued at €537.5 billion in basic prices, equivalent to an increase of 19% compared with 2021. This represented a new peak and continued the upward trend that started in 2010.  The change in nominal value largely reflected the sharp rise in the nominal price for agricultural goods […]

In the second quarter of 2023, EU economy greenhouse gas emissions totalled 821 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a -5.3% decrease compared with the same quarter of 2022 (867 million tonnes of CO2-eq). In the same period, the EU’s gross domestic product (GDP) remained stable registering just a very small variation (+0.05% in the second […]

In 2022, the EU’s circular material use rate (referred to as the circularity rate; the share of used material resources which came from recycled waste materials) reached 11.5%, meaning that 11.5% of material resources used in the EU came from recycled waste materials.  This information comes from data on circular material use rate published by […]

In 2022, more than two-fifths (42.0%) of the EU population aged 25–34 had a tertiary level of educational attainment (some people within this age group might still be studying). Of the 240 NUTS 2 regions for which data are available (no data for Mayotte in France or Åland in Finland), there were 72 regions (equivalent […]

In August 2023, the production of services (excluding financial and public services) increased by 0.3% in the EU and by 0.5% in the eurozone compared with July 2023.  Compared with August 2022, services production increased by 2.4% in the EU and by 2.9% in the eurozone. This information comes from data on services production published […]

In 2021, each person living in the EU consumed on average 77 lightweight plastic carrier bags (LPCBs), which is 11 bags less per person, compared with 2020. Overall, 34.2 billion (bn) lightweight plastic carrier bags were consumed in the EU in 2021 (-4.8 bn bags compared with 2020).  This information comes from data on lightweight […]

During the last decade, life expectancy in the EU rose at a relatively consistent pace until 2019, when life expectancy at birth was 81.3 years. Since then, 2020 and 2021 have recorded declines in life expectancy.  In 2021, the overall life expectancy at birth in the EU was 80.1 years. The life expectancy for women […]

In 2022, the EU had an estimated total of 28.9 million bed places available across more than 620,000 tourist accommodation establishments.  Data showed a complete recovery in terms of tourism accommodation offers in 2022. Compared with 2020, the year the COVID-19 pandemic started, the number of bed places increased by 3% (+765,900) and the establishments […]

The overall tax-to-GDP ratio, meaning the sum of taxes and net social contributions as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), stood at 41.2% in the EU in 2022, a decrease compared with 2021 (41.5%). In the euro area, tax revenue increased in line with nominal GDP, meaning that the tax-to-GDP ratio in 2022 remained […]

High-technology sectors are considered key drivers of economic growth and productivity and often provide well-paid employment opportunities. In 2022, there were 9.8 million people employed in high-technology sectors across the EU, corresponding to 4.9% of the EU’s total employment. The gender representation in this sector sees men accounting for just over two-thirds (67.2%) of the […]