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  • News articles Economy and finance
  • PUBLISHED: 31 October 2024

EU and euro area tax-to-GDP ratio down in 2023

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 40.0% in the EU in 2023, a decrease compared with 2022 (40.7%). In the euro area, the tax-to-GDP ratio also decreased from 41.4% in 2022 to 40.6% in 2023. In...
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  • News articles General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 31 October 2024

Coming soon: a new look for the Eurostat Data Browser

Eurostat will introduce a new interface for our Data Browser on 5 November. While the functionalities remain the same, you will notice a fresh design, an easier navigation, and more user-friendly features.
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  • News articles Transport
  • PUBLISHED: 30 October 2024

Rail passenger transport reaches new peak in 2023

In 2023, 429 billion passenger-kilometres (pkm) were registered via rail, up from 386 billion in 2022 (+11.2%). This is the highest number reported by main rail undertakings since the start of the data collection in 2004.  The demand for passenger transport increased by 9.4% between 2015 and 2019, ...
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  • News articles International trade
  • PUBLISHED: 30 October 2024

Growing EU trade of electric & hybrid cars

Disclaimer: This news item was prepared with data extracted on 10 October.  Between 2017 and 2023, EU trade of electric and hybrid cars increased substantially. In 2023, almost 43% of the total number of cars imported into the EU were electric or hybrid, indicating a significant increase compared w...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 29 October 2024

12% of the EU's labour potential remains unexploited

In 2023, labour market slack accounted for 12.0% of the extended labour force, meaning that 27.1 million people aged 15 to 74 years in the EU were offering an unmatched supply of labour on the market, either because they were unemployed, underemployed, seeking a job even if not immediately available...
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  • News articles General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 29 October 2024

Record high employment rate, regional disparities

In 2023, the EU’s employment rate stood at 75.3%, up 0.7 percentage points (pp) compared with 2022. This is the highest level in the entire available time series. Among the EU regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2), the Polish capital region of Warszawsk...
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  • News articles Environment and energy
  • PUBLISHED: 28 October 2024

Tax hikes hinder gas price drop, raise electricity costs

In the first half of 2024, average household electricity prices in the EU recorded a small rise compared with the second half of 2023, from €28.3 per 100 kWh to €28.9 per 100 kWh. Despite reductions in the cost of energy, supply and network services (-2% compared to second half of 2023), total pric...
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  • News articles Industry, trade and services
  • PUBLISHED: 25 October 2024

More businesses opened than dissolved in the EU in 2022

In 2022, there was a total of over 32 million enterprises in the EU, 3.4 million new enterprises were born that year, and according to the preliminary data, 2.8 million enterprise deaths were registered. The enterprise birth rate was 10.5% while the preliminary rate of enterprise deaths stood at 8.7...
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  • News articles Industry, trade and services
  • PUBLISHED: 25 October 2024

Micro & small businesses make up 99% of enterprises in the EU

In 2022, the EU had 32.3 million enterprises, employing 160 million persons. Of that total, 99% were micro and small enterprises employing up to 49 persons. Micro and small enterprises employed 77.5 million persons, i.e. almost half (48%) of the total number of all persons employed in enterprises. ...
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  • News articles Industry, trade and services International trade
  • PUBLISHED: 25 October 2024

Which countries are the biggest producers of pasta?

In 2023, 6.2 million tonnes of pasta were produced in the EU, worth €8.9 billion. While the volume was comparable with 2022 (6.1 million tonnes), there was an increase of €1.1 billion in terms of value.  Italy was by far the leading EU producer of pasta, with 4.2 million tonnes produced last year, ...
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  • News articles Industry, trade and services
  • PUBLISHED: 24 October 2024

EU sees bigger share of tourists from outside Europe

In 2023, the EU registered a total of 2.9 billion nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments, up from 2.8 billion in 2022. Almost 1.6 billion nights were spent by domestic tourists and close to 1.4 billion by international guests. Between 2022 and 2023, the share of nights spent by intern...
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