Rents and house prices in the EU continued to increase in the third quarter of 2022, going up by 2.1% and 7.4%, respectively, compared with the third quarter of 2021.
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In September 2022, 89 590 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in the EU Member States, 11 995 more people than in the previous month, an increase of
Between the second and the third quarter of 2022, 3.1 million unemployed people in the EU (23.4% of all unemployed in the second quarter of 2022) found a job.
In 2020, the average hourly labour cost in the EU was €28.9.
In 2020, life expectancy of a female newborn in the EU was 83.2 years, 5.7 years higher than for a male newborn (77.5 years).
As of 1 January 2021, young people (aged 15-29 years) made up some 16.3% of the EU’s total population.
In the first half of 2022, average household electricity prices in the EU increased sharply compared with the same period in 2021, from €22.0 per 100 kWh to reach €25.3 per 100 kWh.
In 2020, each person living in the EU generated 34.6 kg of plastic packaging waste on average. Out of these, 13.0 kg were recycled.