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Statistics about EU Flashcards

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What are the current capitals of culture in the EU (2024)

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Bad Ischl (Austria), Bodo (Norway), Tartu (Finland)

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2025 Capitals of culture

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Chemnitz (DE), Nova Gorica (SL), Gorizia (IT)

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2023 capitals of culture

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Elefsina, Timisoara (RO), Veszeprem (HU)

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3 largest metropolitian regions EU

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  1. Paris (12.4), 2. Madrid (6.9), 3. Barcelona (5.8)
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EU GDP figures (PPP)

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Market prices: EUR 17 trillion (EUR 14.4)
Per capita: EUR 37,789 (EUR 41,219)

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GDP 3 biggest - 3 lowest

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Market prices biggest: DE, FR, IT
Market prices lowest: MT, CY, EE
Per capita biggest: LU, IE, DK
Per capita lowest: BG, RO, PO

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EU population + 3 biggest / lowest countries ü EU sahre of world pop

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449.2 million (1 January 2024)
3 biggest: DE, FR, IT
3 smallest: MT, LU, CY

EU share of world pop: 5.6% in 2023

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Sakharov price: first, last 5 2019 - 2024

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1988: Anatoly Marchenko, Nelson Mandela
2019: Ilham Tohti
2020: Democratic opposition in Belarus
2021: Alex Navalny
2022: The Ukrainian people
2023: Woman, Life Freedom movement, Mahsa Jina Amini
2024: Venezuela democratic leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia

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3 largest metropolitan areas

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    1. Paris (12.4),
    1. Madrid (6.9),
    1. Barcelona (5.8)
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EU key short term statistics:

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o Inflation: 2.3% in Nov 2024
o GDP growth 0.3% in Q32024
o Unemployment rate: 5.9% in Sep 2024
o House price growth: 2.9% in Q2 2024
o Pop: 449 million in 2024
o Energy inflation rate: -3.3% in Oct 2024

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Fertility rate

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1.46 births per woman

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Age-old dependency ratio

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2.7 in 2023, compared to 3.8 in 2003.

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Life expectancy

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83.3 for women, 77.9 for men. 80.6 years for both.

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Early leavers from education or training

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9.5% both sexes, 11.3% for men, 7.7% for women.

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Young people neither in employment nor in education and training (NEET rate)

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9.2%

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Number graduates:

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4.3 million in 2022; 2.5 million women and 1.8 million men

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  • Employment rate:
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75.3% in 2023

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Unemployment rate

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6.1% in 2023

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Youth unemployment rate

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14.5% in 2023

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Unadjusted gender pay gap

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12.7% (biggest Estonia with 21.3%, lowest Luxembourg with -0.%)

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People at risk of poverty or social exclusion:

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94.6 million people (21.4% of the EU population). Highest share in RO with 32.4% lowers in Czechia with fewer than 14%.

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Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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31.2% (highest BG 46.7%, lowest NL with 15.3%)

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Inability to afford a one-week annual holiday away from home

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28.5%

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% of EU population unable to keep home warm in 2022:

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9%

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Share of internet users
91.4%
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Real GD growth
0.4% in 2023
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Inflation rate
6.4% in 2023
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Actual individual consumption per capita
EUR 25,000 in 2023
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Government Deficit
3.5% in 2023 (highest 3: IT, HU, RO; lowest in DK, CY, IE)
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Government debt
81.7% of GDP in 2023 (highest 3 GR, IT, FR
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Trade surplus
EUR 38 billion in 2023
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Top 10 partners for international trade in goods - exports:
US (19.6%), UK (13.1%), China,
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* Top 10 partners for international trade in goods – imports
China (20.5%), US (13.8%), UK
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Share of intra-EU trade
61.6% of total trade
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Share of freight transport by means:
by sea (67.8%), road (24.9%), rail, inland waterways.
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Busiest ports
Rotterdam, Antwerpen, Trieste
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Share of sectors in economy by gross value added
Services (71.9%), Industry (20.6%), construction (5.7%), agriculture, forstery, and fishing (1.9%)
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Share of micro entreprises:
94.1%, 30.1% people employed, 19.2% value added
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Share of small entreprises:
4.9%, 18.9% people employed, 16.1% VA
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Share of medium entreprises
0.8%, 15.4% people employed, 17.1% VA
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Share of large entreprises
0.2%, 35.6% people employed, 47.5% value added
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R&D spending as share of GDP in EU
2.24% in 2022
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Number of nights spent at tourist accommodation
2.91 billion
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Number of cars per 1000 inhabintants
563
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Busiest airports
Paris Carles de Gaulle, Amsterda Schiphol, Adolfo Suarez Madrid
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Final energy consumption
37k Petajoule (PL)
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Share final energy consumption
Petroleum products (36.8%), electricity (23%), natural gas (20.5%)
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Final energy use, by end use
Transport (31%), industry (25.1%), otehr sectors,
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Energy dependency rate
62.5% (highest MT, lowest, EE)
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Energy from renewable energy sources
23.0%, ompared to 16% 1 decade earlier. Highest with 66% in Sweden
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Employment in the environmental economy
5.2 million
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Greenhouse gas emissions
In 2022 -29.2% from 1990 levels
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Environmental tax revenue
€321 billion, equivalent to 2.0% of GDP
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Source sectors of greenhouse gas emissions
Fuel combustion in energy industries (40.4%), fuel combustion in transport (26.2%), manufacturing and construction, agriculture, industrial processes, waste managemetn
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Municipal waste generation
513 KG
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Top 5 EU countries for the production of selected agricultural products
* Cereals and rice: FR, DE, PL * vegetables: ES, IT, FR * fruits, berries: IT, ES, FR * pig meat: ES, DE, FR * poultry: PL, ES, DE * bovine meat: FR, DE, ES * milk: DE, FR, PL
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Organic crop area
9.1% EU’s of total utilised agricultural area in 2022 (Austria first, malta last)
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EU countries with the largest fish catches
Spain, France, Denmark,. Biggest area is north east atlantic
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Forest area
38.9% (FI with 75% nr 1, Malta last aith 1.5%)
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Number of NUTS 2021 regions and statistical regions
NUTS level 1: 92 NUTS level 2: 242 NUTS level 3: 1166
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Share of death from cancer
21.9%
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Share of people with teartiary eduaciton (Target in 2030: > 45%)
43.1% in 2023
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Share of people with uppper secondary qualification (target 2030: > 90%)
81.1% in EU
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Early leavers from education and training, 2023 (Target in 2030, <9%)
9.5%
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Employment rate of recent graduates from vocational programmes, 2023 (Target 2030: >= 82%)
81%
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Participation rate in education and training, 2023
12.7%
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Population aged 20-64, + labour force total and total outside labour force
259.9 million, of which * 207.8 million labour force (195.7 employed people and 12.1 millon unemployed people) * 52 million outside labour force
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EU employment rate in 2023 (2030 target: >= 78%)
75.3%
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EU’s gender employment gap (Target 2030: reduce to 5.6 percentage points by 2030)
10.2 percentage points in 2023
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Share of young people neither in employment nor in education and training (NEET), 2023 (EU target for 2030 <9%)
11.2%
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: At-risk-of-poverty rate, 2023
16.2%
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Share of people who never used internet:
6%
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Households with access to internet
93.1%
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Daily internet users
85.9%
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Entreprise birth rateand death rate
Birth rate: 10.7% in 2021 Death rate: 8.5% in 2021
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Plastics: share of plastics in packagin, how much marine litter, how much plastic wate per person
- 40% of plastics used in the EU are in packaging - 1/2of marine litter is from packaging - 186.5 kg of waste generated in the EU per person in 2022

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