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• Medicinal and pharmaceutical products: Exports down in 2023

  In 2023, EU exports of medicinal and pharmaceutical products to countries outside the EU went down by -3.5% when compared with 2022. On the other hand, EU imports increased by 6.1% in 2023. In 2023, exports reached €277 billion, while imports stood at €119 billion. Consequently, the EU's trade surp...

• Asylum decisions up by 7% in 2023

  In 2023, EU countries provided protection status to 409 485 asylum seekers, a 7% increase compared with 2022 (383 700).  This information comes from data on asylum decisions published by Eurostat today. The article presents a selection of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article...

• Accidents at work: injuries & affected body parts in 2021

  In 2021, the EU recorded more than 2.17 million work accidents in agriculture, industry, construction and services to the business economy that resulted in workers being absent from work for 4 days or more. This marks an 11% increase compared with 2020 during which 1.96 million accidents were record...

• Electricity and gas: EU prices decrease after 2022 surge

  Electricity and gas bills decreased in the second half of 2023, after the increase which started before the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and skyrocketed through 2022. In the second half of 2023, average household electricity prices in the EU decreased (€28.5 per 100 kWh) when compared...

• EU's employment rate exceeds 75% in 2023

  In 2023, more than 75% (195.7 million) of the EU's 20 to 64-year-olds were employed, the highest share recorded since the start of the time series in 2009. This marks 3 consecutive years of growth after a drop to 72% in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  This information comes from the data on the...

• 68% girls had at least basic digital skills in 2023

  In 2023, 68% of girls aged 16-19 in the EU possessed basic or above-basic digital skills, noticeably exceeding the share in the general population (56%). The proportion of boys in the same age bracket with at least basic digital skills was slightly lower (65%). Across age groups, only women or men...

• Podcast: how do we show data with maps? - Part 2

  The latest episode of the podcast is the second part of episode 17 on how to show data with maps. In this episode, host Jonathan Elliot is joined by Joseph Davies, data visualisation specialist at Eurostat, Hannes Isaak Reuter, statistical officer at Eurostat, Riccardo Sgaramella, coordinator of th...

• ICT sector: value added stood at 5.5% in 2021

  In 2021, the value added of the EU’s information and communication technology (ICT) sector was equivalent to 5.5% of the EU’s gross value added: 4.7% from ICT services and 0.8% from ICT manufacturing. This information comes from the ICT sector database updated today on the value added, employment,...

• Online purchases: printed books preferred to ebooks

  The share of the EU residents purchasing printed books, magazines or newspapers online remained significantly larger than that for e-books, online magazines or online newspapers in 2023. In 2023, at the EU level, 13.4% of the residents had purchased printed books online in the previous 3 months. Th...

• High overall life satisfaction in the EU

  In 2022, overall life satisfaction in the EU averaged 7.1, based on a scale from 0 (not satisfied at all) to 10 (fully satisfied). The score was slightly down compared with 7.3 in 2018 and consistent with 7.0 in 2013. People were generally more satisfied with their personal relationships (with a sc...

• Government finance statistics: updated information

  In connection with the news releases for the Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP) and the Government Finance Statistics (GFS) published today, a series of related documents have been updated: Note on the stock of liabilities in trade credits and advances;  Stock-flow adjustment note explaining the l...