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In 2024, 12.3 kg of electrical and electronic equipment waste (WEEE or e-waste) per person was collected in the EU. This compares to 32.4 kg of new electrical and electronic equipment (EEE; for example, household appliances, smartphones and computers) per person put on the EU market during the sa...

In 2025, the EU imported €45.1 billion of hybrid and electric cars, a 4% increase compared with 2024 (€43.4 billion). Exports rose to €64.7 billion, up 10% compared with 2024 (€58.7 billion).  Overall, there has been a significant increase in this trade since 2017, when the share of electric and ...

On 31 August 2026, 4.43 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine following Russia's war of aggression had temporary protection status in the EU. Compared with 31 July 2026, the number of people from Ukraine under temporary protection increased by 3 290 (+0.1%). Germany (1 294 555 people; 29.2% of...

In 2025, there were 1.20 billion personal and professional trips by residents in the EU, a 1.4% increase from 2024 (+17 million trips). Of the total, 848 million were domestic trips (70% of the total) and 264 million were foreign trips within the EU (22%), which means 92% of the trips made by EU ...

In 2024, only 1% of EU market producer enterprises (hereinafter, enterprises) were under foreign control. Of those, 59% were controlled by institutional units from other EU countries and 41% resided outside the EU. Among EU countries, Luxembourg had the highest share of foreign-controlled enterpr...

In 2025, the EU exported €48.8 billion worth of goods to Canada and imported €33.0 billion, resulting in a €15.8 billion trade surplus.  Compared with 2024, exports (€48.2 billion) increased by 1.2%, while imports (€28.0 billion) rose by 18.0%. Between 2015 and 2017, EU trade in goods with Canada...

In 2025, 12.1% of people in the EU could not afford to participate regularly in a leisure activity. This share ranged from 3.9% in Croatia to 27.3% in Greece.  Additionally, 8.5% of people could not afford a meal with meat, chicken, fish (or vegetarian equivalent) every second day. This share ran...

In 2025, 73.1% of young people aged 16–29 in the EU took part in a physical activity outside work at least once a week, compared with 61.6% of the total population aged 16 years or over.    The biggest differences were among those who exercise several times a week. In this group, 18.3% of young p...

In 2025, the EU imported €534.1 billion worth of high-tech products and exported €566.5 billion, resulting in a trade surplus of €32.4 billion. After 4 consecutive years of trade deficits (2020-2023), the EU trade balance in high-tech products has been positive for 2 years in a row.  Since 2015, ...

In 2025, the EU employment rate of people aged 20-64 rose to 76.1%, the highest level recorded since the series began in 2009, bringing it to just 1.9 percentage points below the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan target for 2030 (78.0%). Almost half (47.1%) of all EU regions, classifie...

On 1 January 2025, 58.3% of the EU population was of working age (people aged 20 to 64). In 39 EU regions, classified at level 3 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS), the share of the working-age population was at least 63.0%. These regions were mainly in Germany (22 reg...