The European Commission has released the European Innovation Scoreboard 2021, which shows that Europe's innovation performance continues to improve across the EU.
Statistics
The first estimate for euro area exports of goods to the rest of the world in April 2021 was €193.8 billion, an increase of 43.2% compared with April 2020 (€135.3 bn), which had beenheavily affecte
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Eurostat, 15 June 2021
In the first quarter of 2021, seasonally adjusted GDP decreased by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.1% in the EU compared with the previous quarter.
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Eurostat, 8 June 2021
Volume of retail trade down by 3.1% in both euro area and in the EU
Up by 23.9% and 22.4% compared with April 2020
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Eurostat, 4 June 2021
The annual mean concentration of fine particles (PM2.5) in urban areas of the EU has been gradually decreasing to 12.6 μg/m3 in 2019.
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Eurostat, 3 June 2021
In 2020, there were 195.4 million households in the European Union (EU). Almost one-third of these households (29%) had children living with them.
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Eurostat, 1 June 2021
Gross hourly earnings vary considerably across occupations. Based on detailed earnings data for 2018, managers were the best-paid occupation in all EU Member States.
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Eurostat, 27 May 2021
One-fifth (20.3%) of employees born outside the EU were employed on a temporary contract in the EU in 2020, compared with 13.8% for temporary employees born in a different EU Member State and 11.8%
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Eurostat, 26 May 2021
In 2019, 46% of the EU population lived in flats, while just over a third (35%) of the population lived in detached houses and almost one fifth (19%) lived in semi-detached or terraced houses.
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Eurostat, 21 May 2021
Populations are projected to grow in almost three out of five urban regions of the European Union (EU), whereas they are likely to shrink in four out of five rural regions by 2050.
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Eurostat, 20 May 2021