In 2023, 20.0% of adults aged 25 to 59 in the EU, who reported having a bad financial situation in their household around the age of 14, were at risk of poverty, compared with 12.4% of those who described their household’s financial situation at that age as good. This data shows that socio-economic and financial situation during […]
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. They generated €11.9 trillion in turnover, representing 31% of the total […]
Which EU regions are receiving the most foreign tourists?
In 2023, the number of people travelling abroad for tourism had fully recovered from the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, with restrictions lifted for all destinations. The 3 EU regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2) with the highest number of nights spent by foreign tourists were the Spanish island regions of […]
34% of non-EU citizens live in overcrowded households
In 2023, 34.2% of non-EU citizens in the EU lived in overcrowded households, meaning they did not have the number of rooms appropriate for the size of the household. The year before, 32.9% of non-EU citizens lived in overcrowded households. For nationals, the rate was 13.7% in 2023 (down from 13.9% the year before) and 20.8% for […]
The EU most popular region for short-term rental accommodation booked via online platforms was Andalucía
During the first quarter of 2024, guests spent 123.7 million nights in short-term rental accommodation in the EU, booked via Airbnb, Booking, Expedia Group or TripAdvisor. This corresponds to an increase of 28.3% compared with the same period in 2023. Platform tourism continued to set new monthly record values: in January 2024, 33.3 million nights […]
Eurostat: Almost 1 out of 10 in the EU could not afford proper meal
In 2023, 9.5% of the EU population were unable to afford a meal containing meat, fish or a vegetarian equivalent every second day, 1.2 percentage points (pp) higher compared with 2022 (8.3%). Moreover, focusing on people at risk of poverty in 2023 the share at the EU level was 22.3%, indicating a 2.6 pp […]
Eurostat: House sales drop in 2023
In 2023, the number of housing transactions decreased in 13 out of the 16 EU countries for which data are available, compared with 2022. This marks the second consecutive year that the majority of reporting countries have registered drops in sales. The largest decreases in the number of transactions in 2023 were recorded in Luxembourg […]
The European Commission appoints a Spanish woman as Director in the Directorate-General for Statistics
The European Commission has appointed María Antonia Martínez Luengo as Director for “Macroeconomic Statistics” in the Commission’s Directorate-General for Statistics (DG Eurostat), responsible for providing high quality statistics and data on Europe in collaboration with the national statistical authorities of the EU Member States and for proposing all EU statistical legislation. The date of entry […]
Eurostat: Drop in youths neither working nor studying
In 2023, more than one in ten (11.2%) young people aged 15 to 29 in the EU were neither in employment nor in education or training (NEET), a decrease of 0.5 percentage points (pp) compared with 2022. Over the last ten years, there was a noticeable decrease in the NEET rate among people aged 15 to 29. In 2013, the […]