Eurostat

09/06/2026

The finalists for the 2025-2026 European Statistics Competition have been announced❗️ 🎊

🏆 Winners announced on 25 June; streamed live on the European Statistics Competition website.

🎥 Head over to YouTube to check out the finalists’ films for the 14-16 and 16-18 age groups 👉 youtube.com/playlist?list=PLguBiALySiUiwhikAsKL1rhntoAWNc6D-&si=NrhW4qgBvgheJBxq

09/06/2026

VIDEO | Labour market — How do we calculate unemployment and employment? 💼🧮

Labour markets provide the structure through which workers and employers interact about jobs, working conditions and pay. Other actors are the institutions and processes of collective bargaining, including the roles played by employers’ organisations and trade unions.

Watch the video 👇

The labour market is the real or virtual meeting point, within an e...

09/06/2026

In 2024, the EU sold €10.4 billion worth of wind turbines. 💨

🔹From 2015 to 2023, the sold production quantity of wind-powered generating sets in the EU varied each year between 6 800 and 12 000, before increasing to 15 500 in 2024.

Read more 👉 https://link.europa.eu/b7Fyp7

09/06/2026

In 2024, 21.3% of EU enterprises engaged in international (intra-EU and extra-EU) trade in goods were two-way traders, while 70.6% were solely importers and the remaining 8.1% were exporters.↔️

🔹In terms of value, two-way traders accounted for the vast majority (95.4%) of all goods traded.

Read more 👉 https://link.europa.eu/QQtcB9

08/06/2026

At the end of 2025, for all euro area members, all or almost all (more than 99.5%) of their general government gross debt at face value was denominated in euro.

🔹Similarly, in Czechia and Sweden, over 90% of general government gross debt was denominated in their national currencies.

In 2025, highest apparent cost of general government gross debt, among countries for which data were available, reported by:

🇷🇴Romania (5.2%)
🇵🇱Poland (4.5%)
🇨🇿Czechia (3.1%)

Lowest:

🇮🇪Ireland (1.4%)
🇱🇺Luxembourg (1.5%)
🇳🇱Netherlands (1.7%)

Read more 👉 https://link.europa.eu/x77BcV

08/06/2026

In 2025, the EU exported 2.7 thousand tonnes of shark fins to countries outside the EU, worth €44.8 million. ↔️🦈

📉Compared with 2024, the export volume decreased by 15.2% (from 3.1 thousand tonnes), and the export value dropped by 31.3% (from €65.3 million).

Main trade partners (shark fins) in 2025:

🇸🇬Singapore (41.5% of trade)
🇨🇳China (40.9%)
🇭🇰Hong Kong (12.8%)

Read more 👉 https://link.europa.eu/vPBtxg

07/06/2026

In the EU, the mean age of women at the birth of their first child was 29.9 years in 2024. 👶⁠
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Learn more ➡️ https://link.europa.eu/Yj4hYN

07/06/2026

Do you usually work from home❓🖥️🖱️

In 2025, 8.9% of employed people in the EU usually worked from home 🏠

Highest shares in:

🇫🇮 Finland (20.9%)
🇮🇪 Ireland (19.8%)
🇧🇪 Belgium (13.5%)

Lowest in:

🇷🇴 Romania (1.3%)
🇧🇬 Bulgaria (1.4%)
🇬🇷 Greece (2.3%)

ℹ️ ‘Usually’ refers to working at home at least half of the time worked in a reference period of 4-12 working weeks preceding the end of the reference week.

ℹ️ Note that the map includes EU and EFTA countries with available data. The ranking in the caption is based on EU countries only.

➡️ https://link.europa.eu/JcBnn9

06/06/2026

𝗟𝗲𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵'𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁! 📊👇

There were 9.4 million beehives on EU farms in 2023. 🐝📈

Highest numbers among EU countries in:
🇮🇹 Italy (1.9 million beehives on farms)
🇷🇴 Romania (1.7 million)
🇬🇷 Greece (1.2 million)

ℹ️ This is a partial picture of all the beehives in the EU, because farm structure statistics only record beehives on farms.

Read more 👉 https://link.europa.eu/68WrNY

06/06/2026

Today is Sweden National Day. 🇸🇪

Idag är det Sveriges nationaldag. 🇸🇪

See the country's infographic. 👇