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1. 45% EU enterprises bought cloud services in 2023

   In 2023, 45.2% of EU enterprises purchased cloud computing services (i.e. services used over the internet to access software, computing power, storage capacity, etc.). This marks a 4.2 percentage point (pp) increase compared with 2021. This information comes from data on information and communicati...

2. More than 4.2 million people under temporary protection

   On 31 October 2023, 4.24 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine as a consequence of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022, had temporary protection status in EU countries.  The main EU countries hosting beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 215 365 people; 28.7% of...

3. New indicators on childcare participation and intensity

   In 2022, 69.3% of children aged from 3 years to the minimum compulsory school age in the EU participated in formal childcare or education for at least 25 hours per week. Within this age group, 12.4% of children were not involved in formal childcare (zero hours), while 18.2% participated in formal ch...

4. Air passengers more than doubled in 2022

   In 2022, the total number of passengers travelling by air in the EU was 820 million, a substantial increase of more than double (119%) compared with 2021 (374 million), after the strong decline of 73% in 2020 compared with 2019 due to pandemic restrictions.  Data show that in 2022, all EU countri...

5. Peer review report on Romania now online

   Eurostat is pleased to announce that another peer review report within the third round of European Statistical System (ESS) peer reviews – the peer review report on Romania – is now publicly available on Eurostat’s thematic web page and on the web page of Romania’s National Institute of Statistics. ...

6. Key figures on the European food chain - 2023 edition

   Eurostat released today the 2023 edition of Key figures on the European food chain. This publication  gives an overview of the interwoven and complex nature of the EU's farm to fork chain and provides related official data. The publication is divided into three sections: The first section provid...

7. EU services production: up by 0.2% in September

   In September 2023, the production of services (excluding financial and public services) increased by 0.2% in the EU, while in the euro area it decreased by 0.1%, when compared with August 2023.  Compared with September 2022, services production increased by 1.6% in the EU and by 2.5% in the euro ar...

8. EU ports rebounding from pandemic disruptions

   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...

9. Over 30 million jobs in 2021 thanks to extra-EU exports

   In 2021, the employment of 30.4 million persons in the EU was supported by exports to non-EU countries, a slight increase from 29.9 million in 2020 (+1.7%).   In relative terms, export-supported employment represented 15% of total employment in the EU (210 million), equivalent to just over 1 in 7 p...

10. EU expenditure on R&D reaches €352 billion in 2022

    In 2022, the EU spent €352 billion on research & development (R&D), 6.34% more than in the previous year (€331 billion) and 48.52% more than in 2012 (€237 billion). 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...

11. GHG down by 3.6 tonnes per employed person in a decade

    Over the last decade, the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the EU economy per employed person decreased by 26% or 3.6 tonnes. In 2021, the emissions stood at 13.7 tonnes per employed person, compared with 17.3 in 2012. 2 factors contributed to this: a decrease in the GHG emissions as well as an...