The total value of extra EU-27 trade in telecommunication, sound and video equipment (SITC division 76) rose by 33% over the period 2000-2008. There were minor fluctuations for exports but imports increased by 61%, peaking in 2007. The EU-27 recorded trade deficits for these products every year....
In 2010, general government expenditure amounted to 50.3% of EU-27 GDP. More than half is devoted to social protection and health. The other functions of government spending mainly concern general public services, education and economic affairs. This publication analyses the main trends related ...
This "Statistics in Focus" is a new publication based on the national accounts data of the households sector. In 2007, which is before the ongoing slowdown, household real income per capita was about 50% higher in the United States than in the euro area (and 70% higher than in the EU). In Europe...
The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has become an essential feature of both economic and social activity across Europe. In nearly all European countries and in all age groups, however, men are more regular users of both computers and the internet than women and many more ...
A recession is often defined as two successive negative quarter on quarter changes in constant price GDP. Eurostat’s Statistics in Focus on ‘Recession in the EU-27: output measures’ (issue 17/2009) showed that there were successive declines in the EU-27’s GDP in the third and fourth quarters of ...
Consumption is a key indicator of citizens’ wellbeing, with housing, energy, transport and food accounting for about half of total household expenditure. This report uses data on the development and structure of expenditure to identify trends over the past decade. For instance, the impact of the...
Intellectual property rights (IPR) are the link between innovation, inventions and other intellectual creations and the market. Innovative enterprises tend to make more use of intellectual property (IP) protection. Both enterprise size and economic sector play an important role in whether a firm...
Tax revenues (including social contributions) accounted for over 91 % of total general government revenue in the European Union. Tax revenue made up 39.6 % of GDP in 2010 in the European Union (EU-27) and 40.2 % of GDP in the euro area (EA-17). Taxes on production and imports accounted for 33.3 ...
The latest estimates for 2007 show that the unemployment rate in the EU-27 was 7.2%, 1 percentage point less than in 2006. More than 80% of the NUTS 2 regions have reduced their unemployment rates. Regions with the highest unemployment rates in 2006 achieved the biggest reductions in unemploymen...