In the first quarter of 2022, EU economy greenhouse gas emissions totalled 1 029 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 7% and 6% increase compared with the same quarter of 2020 and 2021, bu
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In 2020, general government expenditure in the 27 EU Member States on "fire protection services" amounted to €32.9 billion, a 6.4% increase from 2019, when expenditure was around €30.9 billion.
Work intensity reflects how much all working-age household members have worked as compared to their full potential.
In the first quarter of 2022, the market value of the outstanding long-term debt securities in the euro area decreased by around €501 billion due to a decrease in value in the financial markets.
After a first decline in population growth in 2020 due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU’s population decreased again in 2021, from 447 million on 1 January 2021 to 446.8 on 1 January
Looking at the past two years, COVID-19-related measures took their toll on many economic sectors, including tourism.
In 2021 the share of women in the EU (25-54 years old) outside the labour force who were not seeking employment was much higher than for men (18.5% compared with 8.2%).
In the first quarter of 2022, seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 0.6% in the euro area and by 0.7% in the EU compared with the previous quarter.
The share of 'early school leavers,’ a term that refers to early leavers from education and training (aged 18-24), has steadily decreased in the EU over the last 10 years, from 13% in 2011 to 10% i
The unemployment rate in the OECD fell further to 5.1% in March 2022, from 5.2% in February.