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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 17 May 2024

Circulatory disease deaths: majority among people over 65

In 2021, the EU standardised death rate due to diseases of the circulatory system was 343 deaths per 100 000 people. The rate was heavily influenced by age, with a rate for those 65 years or over of 1 586 deaths per 100 000 inhabitants over 65, while the rate for those under 65 was 42. The rate in ...
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  • News articles Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
  • PUBLISHED: 17 May 2024

Sales of pesticides in the EU down 10% in 2022

There was a sharp downturn in the quantity of pesticides sold in the EU in 2022, in large part as prices surged. About 322 000 tonnes of pesticides were sold in 2022, down 10% on the quantity sold in 2021. This information comes from data on pesticide sales published recently by Eurostat. The artic...
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  • News articles Economy and finance Industry, trade and services General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 17 May 2024

European Statistical Monitor: May 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 Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 16 May 2024

European Diversity Month 2024

The month of May marks the European Diversity Month and thus it is a good opportunity to have a look at the Eurostat data on equality in the EU.  Did you know that: one-third of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics graduates are women? there is more than a 20 percentage point differ...
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  • News articles Industry, trade and services
  • PUBLISHED: 16 May 2024

Q1 2024: decline in bankruptcies, rise in registrations

In the first quarter of 2024, the number of bankruptcy declarations of EU businesses decreased by 0.8% compared with the fourth quarter of 2023.  At the same time, business registrations were up by 1.6% in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the previous quarter.  This article presents a handf...
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  • News articles Science and technology
  • PUBLISHED: 16 May 2024

Large enterprises used more e-business applications

In 2023, the adoption of e-business applications varied among enterprise size classes in the EU. E-business applications are used to manage the enterprise resources (enterprise resource planning – ERP), information about customers (customer relationship management – CRM) or to analyse data (business...
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  • News articles Population and social conditions
  • PUBLISHED: 15 May 2024

Demography: interactive publication 2024 edition

Eurostat has released the 2024 interactive publication on demography, where you can find interesting insights about how the population is developing, ageing and much more.  Did you know that the share of persons aged 65 and over increased from 16.2% in the beginning of 2003 to 21.3% in the beginnin...
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  • News articles General and regional statistics
  • PUBLISHED: 15 May 2024

New webinar empowers informed decision-making

Did you ever think about how Eurostat data can affect our daily life? Do you know what makes Eurostat statistics reliable? The Unlocking informed decisions with high-quality statistics webinar offers an opportunity to learn how Eurostat delivers high-quality statistics. It also provides guidance on...
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  • News articles Environment and energy
  • PUBLISHED: 15 May 2024

EU economy greenhouse gas emissions: -4.0% in Q4 2023

In the fourth quarter of 2023, EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 897 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 4.0% decrease compared with the same quarter of 2022 (935 million tonnes of CO2-eq). The EU’s gross domestic product (GDP) remained stable, registering just a small ...
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  • News articles International trade
  • PUBLISHED: 14 May 2024

€29 billion trade deficit in raw materials in 2023

In 2023, the total trade value (imports plus exports) of raw materials between the EU and the rest of the world was €165 billion. Exports (€68 billion) were lower than imports (€97 billion), resulting in a trade deficit of €29 billion.  Between 2013 and 2023, the total EU trade in raw materials gre...
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  • News articles Environment and energy
  • PUBLISHED: 13 May 2024

Electricity and gas: 64.5% of industrial final energy use

In 2022 electricity (33.3%) and natural gas (31.2%) made up almost two-thirds (64.5%) of the EU’s industry sector's final energy consumption.  The sector still largely relies on fossil fuels, which directly accounted for over half (50.5%) of final energy consumption in industry in 2022. This is sli...
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