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  • Nachrichtenartikel Bevölkerung und soziale Bedingungen
  • VERÖFFENTLICHT: 6. März 2025

More women reported needs for medical examination

In 2023, 65.7% of people in the EU aged 16 or above reported needing medical examination or treatment. This share was lower for men (62.1%) than for women (69.1%), resulting in a 7.0 percentage points (pp) gap. The share of people in need of medical examination or treatment increased with age. A...
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  • Nachrichtenartikel Bevölkerung und soziale Bedingungen
  • VERÖFFENTLICHT: 5. März 2025

3.7 million women held managerial positions in 2023

In 2023, 3.7 million women in the EU held a managerial position, up from 3.1 million in 2014, according to the EU Labour Force Survey, the main source for labour market statistics in EU.  This means that although women represented almost half of all employed people in the EU (46.4%), they were u...
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  • Nachrichtenartikel Umwelt und Energie
  • VERÖFFENTLICHT: 5. März 2025

EU renewable energy for heating and cooling reaches 26%

The use of renewable energy sources in heating and cooling continues to increase in the EU, with the share of energy from renewables in those areas reaching 26.2% in 2023, the highest value since the time series started in 2004 (11.7%). The share increased by 1.2 percentage points (pp) compared w...
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  • Nachrichtenartikel Industrie, Handel und Dienstleistungen
  • VERÖFFENTLICHT: 4. März 2025

EU tourism tops 3 billion nights in 2024 after strong Q4

2024 was the best tourism year on record for the EU, with the total number of nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments  exceeding 3 billion. This reflects a 2.2% increase compared with 2023 (+65.4 million nights), following a final boost in the last quarter of the year.  Data show a ...
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  • Nachrichtenartikel Internationaler Handel
  • VERÖFFENTLICHT: 4. März 2025

Slight decline in imports and exports from China in 2024

In 2024, the EU exported goods worth €213.3 billion to China and imported €517.8 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of €304.5 billion.  China was the EU’s largest trade partner for imports (21.3% of all extra-EU imports) and the third-largest partner for exports (8.3% of all extra-EU exports)...
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  • Nachrichtenartikel Bevölkerung und soziale Bedingungen
  • VERÖFFENTLICHT: 3. März 2025

In focus: women in master’s and PhD studies in the EU

Among the 1.5 million master’s students in the EU in 2022, 905 678 were women, representing 58.6% of the total. At doctoral level, this share was 48.5% of a total of 99 204 doctorate students.  At master’s level, women represented the majority of students in all EU countries, except for Luxembou...
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  • Nachrichtenartikel Umwelt und Energie
  • VERÖFFENTLICHT: 3. März 2025

EU environmental employment up 10% on average in 2022

In 2022, employment in the environmental economy in the EU countries increased on average by 9.5% compared to 2021, measured in full-time equivalents. The increase ranged from 2.8% in Czechia to 38% in Greece while in Malta, Lithuania and Slovakia employment decreased in the same period.  Italy,...
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  • Nachrichtenartikel Internationaler Handel
  • VERÖFFENTLICHT: 28. Februar 2025

Large enterprises lead the EU services exports

In 2022, most of the services exports from the EU to non-EU countries (56%) were carried out by large enterprises with 250 or more employees. Small enterprises (up to 49 employees) accounted for 14% of exports and medium-sized enterprises (50 to 249 employees) for 10%, while the size of the expor...
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  • Nachrichtenartikel Bevölkerung und soziale Bedingungen
  • VERÖFFENTLICHT: 28. Februar 2025

Citizenship granted to over 1 million people in 2023

In 2023, 1.1 million people acquired the citizenship of the EU country where they lived, an increase of around 6.1% (+60 200 people) compared with 2022. Most of the new citizenships were granted by Spain (240 200; 22.9% of the EU total), Italy (213 600; 20.3%) and Germany (199 800; 19.0%).  The...
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  • Nachrichtenartikel Wissenschaft und Technologie
  • VERÖFFENTLICHT: 27. Februar 2025

EU enterprises’ online sales reach new heights in 2023

According to data reported in 2024, 23.8% of EU enterprises conducted online sales in 2023, which was 6.6 percentage points (pp) higher than in 2013 (17.2%).  Among the EU countries, Lithuania had the highest share of enterprises engaging in online sales at 42.1%, ahead of Ireland (39.6%) and De...
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  • Nachrichtenartikel Bevölkerung und soziale Bedingungen
  • VERÖFFENTLICHT: 27. Februar 2025

1 out of 7 EU employees is a low-wage earner

In 2022, 14.7% of employees in the EU were low-wage earners, against 16.2% in 2018. Low-wage earners are employees earning two-thirds or less of the median gross hourly earnings in the country of work. The share of low-wage earners was higher among women than men in 2022 (17.1% compared with 12....
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