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  • News articles Industry, trade and services
  • PUBLISHED: 2 June 2025

EU tourism nights in the first quarter of 2025

In the first quarter of 2025, there were 452.4 million overnight stays in tourist accommodations across the EU, marking a slight decline of 0.2% compared with the same quarter of 2024. January recorded 139.0 million nights (+3.5% compared with January 2024), February 147.7 million (-0.8%) and Mar...
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  • News articles General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 28 May 2025

Join our webinar on Sustainable Development Goals

Eurostat invites you to join the webinar on the EU’s progress towards its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will take place on Friday, 6 June 2025, from 10:15 to 11:00 CEST. The webinar will explore the key findings of the 2025 “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - monitoring report”...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 28 May 2025

24% of EU children at poverty risk or social exclusion

In 2024, 19.5 million children in the EU were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. This figure represented 24.2% of children under the age of 18, down by 0.6 percentage points (pp) from 2023 (24.8%).  At the country level, in 2024, the highest values were reported in Bulgaria (35.1%), Spain (...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 27 May 2025

Employment gaps for women & people with disabilities

In 2024, employment inequalities linked to disability, gender and origin were recorded in the EU. The gender employment gap in the EU was 10.0 percentage points (pp), with an employment rate of 80.8% for men and 70.8% for women. The gap was 0.2 pp lower than in 2023 and 1.1 pp lower compared with...
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  • News articles General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 26 May 2025

Celebrating 20 years of the ‘European Statistics Code of Practice’

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the European Statistics Code of Practice, which was adopted by Eurostat and the National Statistical Institutes of the European Statistical System on 25 February 2005. The adoption marked a pivotal step in ensuring high-quality, reliable, and transparent Eu...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 23 May 2025

New lows for EU unemployment in 2024

In 2024, the unemployment rate for 15-74 years old in the EU fell to 5.9% of the labour force, marking a historic low since the beginning of the time series in 2009. The long-term unemployment rate, as a percentage of the labour force, was 1.9% in 2024. This was similarly the lowest level in the...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 22 May 2025

4.6% of people aged 50-74 rely on disability pensions

In 2023, 45.1% of people aged 50 to 74 in the EU received a pension. Within this age group, 39.7% were old-age pension beneficiaries, 4.6% received disability pensions or other periodic disability benefits, and 0.8% received both types of pensions. From the age of 50 up until the age of 59, disa...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 22 May 2025

Immigration law enforcement in the EU: 2024 figures

In 2024, 123 655 third-country nationals were refused entry into the EU territory at one of its external borders, a small increase of 0.3% compared with 2023.  918 925 people were found to be illegally present in an EU country, representing a 27.4% decrease compared with the 1.27 million in the ...
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  • News articles Transport
  • PUBLISHED: 21 May 2025

Passenger cars per inhabitant stable in 2023

In 2023, there were on average 0.55 passenger cars per inhabitant in the EU, down 0.1 percentage points compared with 2022. This information comes from data on regional transport statistics published by Eurostat today. The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics ...
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  • News articles General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 20 May 2025

European Statistical Monitor: May edition

Today, Eurostat released the European Statistical Monitor, a dashboard with short-term indicators covering different areas, such as economy, environment, business, health and work. This monthly updated dashboard is designed to track developments within the EU as a whole and its members, as well ...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 20 May 2025

Interactive Demography of Europe: 2025 edition out now

Eurostat has released the 2025 version of the interactive publication Demography of Europe. Here you can find interesting insights about how the population is developing, ageing and much more.  Did you know that the share of those aged 80+ increased from 3.8% to 6.1% between 2004 and 2024? Were ...
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