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  • News articles Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
  • PUBLISHED: 13 March 2025

Agricultural prices increase in Q4 2024

In the fourth quarter of 2024, the average price of agricultural output that farmers get at the farm gate in the EU increased by 2.2% compared with the same quarter in 2023. This represents the first increase since the second quarter of 2023. By contrast, the average price of goods and services ...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 13 March 2025

Disabled people less likely to be internet users

In 2024, 78.2% of people in the EU aged 16-74 with severe disability used the internet regularly (having used the internet at least once a week during the previous 3 months). Among those with moderate disability the share was 86% and it was 93.5% for those without disability. Looking at differen...
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  • News articles International trade
  • PUBLISHED: 12 March 2025

EU exported €77.8 billion worth of iron and steel in 2024

In 2024, the EU exported iron and steel and related articles worth €77.8 billion and imported €73.1 billion, resulting in a trade surplus of €4.7 billion. Compared with 2019, there was a substantial increase in the trade of these products: exports rose by 15.2% (+€10.3 billion), and imports incre...
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  • News articles Science and technology
  • PUBLISHED: 12 March 2025

One-third of online shoppers faced issues in 2023

A 2023 survey on the use of information and communication technologies reveals that one-third (33.1%) of people in the EU who engaged in online shopping in the past 3 months reported encountering problems while making purchases through a website or an app. Among the EU countries, the highest sha...
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  • News articles Environment and energy
  • PUBLISHED: 11 March 2025

New release: Shedding light on energy in Europe 2025

Energy plays a crucial role in our daily lives, from lighting and heating our homes to powering industry and transport. But where does it come from and what types of energy do we use in the EU? How are we advancing towards adopting renewable energy sources? The 2025 edition of Shedding light on ...
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  • News articles International trade
  • PUBLISHED: 11 March 2025

Trade in goods with the United States in 2024

In 2024, the EU exported €531.6 billion in goods to the United States and imported €333.4 billion, resulting in a €198.2 billion trade surplus. Compared with 2023, exports increased by 5.5%, while imports declined by 4.0%. Source dataset: ds-059331 Key goods: medical and pharmaceutical produc...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 10 March 2025

4.3 million under temporary protection in January 2025

On 31 January 2025, almost 4.3 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine as a consequence of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine had temporary protection status in the EU.  The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 ...
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  • News articles Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
  • PUBLISHED: 10 March 2025

Contrasting changes in animal production forecast

In the second half (semester) of 2025, the gross indigenous production (GIP) of bovine animals in the EU is projected to reach 12.0 million head. This would indicate an increase of 0.5% compared with the same period in 2024, when 11.9 million animals were produced. By contrast, the production of...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 7 March 2025

33.4% of parliamentarians across EU are women

In 2024, women held one-third (33.4%) of the seats in national parliaments across the EU, marking a 5.6 percentage points (pp) increase compared with 2014. Sweden (45.6%), Finland (45.5%) and Denmark (44.7%) had the highest shares of female representatives, while Cyprus (14.3%), Hungary (14.6%) ...
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  • News articles Industry, trade and services
  • PUBLISHED: 7 March 2025

Total market production decreased in December 2024

In December 2024, the total market production decreased by 0.2% in the EU and by 0.4% in the euro area compared with the previous month. The total market production index (TMPI) is a composite indicator that combines 4 short-term business statistics indicators covering most of the market economy...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 7 March 2025

Record drop in children being born in the EU in 2023

In 2023, 3.67 million babies were born in the EU, a 5.4% decrease from the 3.88 million in 2022. This is the largest annual decline recorded since 1961. The total fertility rate in 2023 was 1.38 live births per woman in the EU, down from 1.46 in 2022.  This information comes from data on fertil...
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