This "Statistics in Focus" describes and analyses the expenditure and the receipts of Social Protection in different European countries. In 2006, social protection expenditure accounted for 26.9% of GDP in EU 27. This average masks high disparities between countries. Expenditure on old-age and s...
Germany, Spain, France, UK, Italy and Poland dominated the demand for road freight transport (tonnes loaded and unloaded) in 2007, accounting for 70% of the European total. Germany was the main partner in all types of transport. International transport flows accounted for 5% of the total and Ger...
While population decline is already in evidence in several countries in Europe, at aggregate level (European Union and Europe as a whole) the population in 2007 still increased. The main driver of this population growth was once again migration, which counterbalanced the negative natural change ...
A slow recovery in road freight transport continued in 2010 but activity remained below the peak level recorded in 2007. Cross trade and cabotage transport continued to grow more rapidly than international transport. Poland confirmed its emergence as a key-player in road freight, particularly fo...
This Statistics in Focus is part of a series of country-specific publications on the results of the Farm Structure Survey (FSS) 2005. It provides a brief but nevertheless comprehensive insight into the farm structure in Belgium. A similar publication was issued in October 2004 presenting the res...
In 2011, the highest price level for investment among the EU Member States was observed in Sweden at 36% above the EU average, while in the cheapest Member State, Romania, the price level was 41% below the EU average....
Foreign-controlled enterprises accounted for 18 % of the value added, but less than 1 % of the number of enterprises in the 14 Member States for which data are available. They were most important within the manufacturing sector. More than 60 % of their value added could be attributed to enterpri...
This SIF presents data on taxes and social contributions collected in the European Union, as provided to Eurostat in the ESA95 transmission table 9 ('Detailed Tax and Social Contribution Receipts by Type of Tax and Social Contribution and Receiving Sub-Sector'). It briefly analyses the level and...
This Statistics in Focus describes for the first time who, in the European economy, are paying for environmental taxes (transport and energy taxes). These results stem from the first round of questionnaire that was sent out to European countries as one step of following the European Strategy for...
This Statistics in Focus contains a range of official statistics that are currently available, published for the first time in terms of EU coastal regions. These coastal regions are defined as standard statistical regions (NUTS level 3), which have at least half of their population within 50 km ...