In 2008, public education expenditure represented approximately 5 % of GDP. That year, at the start of the economic crisis, public education expenditure grew 2.8 % in real terms, 2.4 percentage points above GDP growth. Private entities expenditure in education institutions was 0.75 % of GDP, but...
The economic crisis continued to have a strong asymmetric impact on regional labour markets in the European Union (EU) in 2011. In the EU- 27, the unemployment rate among the 15 to 74 age group remained stable at 9.6 % while the employment rate for the 20 to 64 age group rose slightly to 68.6 % ...
This Statistics in focus is the monthly publication of Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices (HICP) for November 2007. It contains indices and rates of change for individual MSs, the EU, the EEA and the euro area....
This short article presents data for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows of the EU-25, detailed by main partner country or zone. In 2006, EU-25 FDI in extra-EU25 countries (outflows) were EUR 202 billion, 9% higher than in 2005 (EUR 186 billion). FDI inflows from extra-EU25 increased from EUR ...
European industrial production has increased considerably between 2003 and 2007. A small number of product groups and a small number of Member States account for a large share of sold production in the EU. This ‘Statistics in Focus’ is the first dedicated to this statistical domain. It presents ...
The increasing internationalisation of the world economy, the shift in industrial output from high to lower labour cost regions and the emergence of a group of countries with rapidly developing economies are features of globalisation. Looking at how far it affects the development of industrial p...
This Statistics in Focus presents price level indices for furniture for 33 European countries in 2005. Price levels vary between 35% above the EU average in Iceland and more than 50% below the EU average in Romania....
In addition to the existing harmonised data collection on business demography, which covers all enterprises regardless of their size, this publication presents first results on enterprises with at least one employee (employer enterprises). Here, not only are those enterprises considered as "empl...
This statistics in Focus presents characteristics of European education and training systems between 2000 and 2009, from when children start in school, until they leave as young adults. It emphasises major trends at each educational level in terms of enrolments, education expectancy, teacher cha...
This Statistics in Focus is part of a series of country-specific publications on the results of the Farm Structure Survey (FSS) 2007. It provides a brief but nevertheless comprehensive insight into the farm structure in Portugal. 275 000 agricultural holdings were recorded in Portugal in the 200...