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  • News articles Economy and finance
  • PUBLISHED: 17 January 2025

European Statistical Monitor: January edition

Today, Eurostat released the European Statistical Monitor, a dashboard with short-term indicators covering different areas, such as economy, environment, business, health and work. This monthly updated dashboard is designed to track developments within the EU as a whole and its members, as well as ...
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  • News articles Industry, trade and services
  • PUBLISHED: 17 January 2025

EU sees record number of tourism nights in 2024

In 2024, the estimated number of nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments in the EU reached 2.99 billion, exceeding the previous year by 53.4 million, or 2%. The growth in tourism nights was mainly driven by an increase in nights spent by international guests (+58.7 million), while the ...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 16 January 2025

86 945 asylum applications in October 2024

In October 2024, 86 945 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in EU countries, a 24% decrease compared with October 2023 (114 890).  There were also 7 475 subsequent applicants, representing an 11% increase compared with October 2023 (6 725). This info...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 16 January 2025

Medical workforce in the EU: an ageing profession

In 2022, there were an estimated 1.83 million practising physicians in the EU, and among them, over 481 000 were practising generalist doctors. General practitioners (GPs) provide comprehensive medical care for a wide range of health issues, not being limited to a certain medical field or disease. ...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 15 January 2025

Temporary protection for 4.2 million people in November

On 30 November 2024, slightly more than 4.2 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 G...
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  • News articles Transport
  • PUBLISHED: 14 January 2025

Zero-emission vehicles: how many newly registered in 2023?

In 2023, 1 548 417 new zero-emission passenger cars were registered in the EU. This corresponds to a share of 14.5% in all new registrations of passenger cars in EU countries.  The highest shares of zero-emission passenger cars in new registrations were noted in Sweden (38.6%), Denmark (36.1%) and ...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 14 January 2025

Younger people report higher rates of trust in others

In 2023, the estimated average rating of trust in others among people aged 16 and older in the EU stood at 5.8 (on a scale from 0 ‘do not trust at all’ to 10 ‘trust completely’). At the national level, notable differences were observed among the population aged 16 years or over, with rating raging ...
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  • News articles Environment and energy
  • PUBLISHED: 13 January 2025

EU greenhouse gas emissions reduced by 7% in 2023

In 2023, the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions by economic activities and households totalled 3.4 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalents. This represents a 7% decrease compared with 2022 and 18% reduction compared with 2013. Between 2013 and 2023, producers in almost all economic activities reduced their gr...
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  • News articles Economy and finance
  • PUBLISHED: 10 January 2025

House prices and rents went up in Q3 2024

In the third quarter of 2024, house prices in the EU went up by 3.8%, while rents increased by 3.2% compared with the third quarter of 2023. Compared with the second quarter of 2024, house prices increased by 1.4% and rents by 0.9%.  This information comes from data on house prices and rents publi...
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  • News articles Industry, trade and services
  • PUBLISHED: 8 January 2025

Nights booked via online platforms up 18% in Q3 2024

During the third quarter of 2024, guests spent 366.2 million nights in short-term rental accommodation in the EU, booked via Airbnb, Booking, Expedia Group or Tripadvisor. This corresponds to an increase of 18% compared with the same period in 2023. All 3 months in the third quarter of 2024 recorde...
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  • News articles Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
  • PUBLISHED: 7 January 2025

Explore Eurostat’s new brochure on farms in the EU

Did you know that there are 9.1 million farms in the EU? Or that 64% of these farms are small (under 5 hectares)? Were you aware that only 6% of farm managers are younger than 35? You can find these and many other facts from the agricultural census 2020 in Eurostat’s new publication A look at Europ...
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