Archive:Europe 2020 indicators - Austria
Data extracted in August 2019.
No planned update.
This Statistics Explained article is outdated and has been archived - for recent information on Europe 2020 strategy see here.
Source: Eurostat (see dedicated web section: Europe 2020 headline indicators)
Explanations on this radar chart are available here.
This article is part of a set of statistical articles on Europe 2020 strategy, focusing on the situation in Austria.
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Overview
In 2018, Austria continued to meet both of its education targets, with only 7.3 % of pupils leaving school early and 40.7 % of 30- to 34-year-olds having completed tertiary education. In contrast, it had met none of its energy targets by 2017: the country had a 1.4 percentage point gap to close to meet its renewable energy target and it was also 1.1 Mtoe away from its primary energy consumption target. In spite of a 9.8 % reduction in GHG emissions in ESD sectors by 2017 compared with the ESD base year levels, the country was still 6.2 % away from its national target. With a 76.2 % employment rate in 2018, the country was closer to its national target of 77 % than the EU was to its overall target of 75 %. Despite having one of the highest R&D intensities (R&D expenditure as a share of GDP) across the EU, in 2017 Austria was still 0.6 percentage points from its target, partly because its target was very ambitious to begin with. Progress in the area of poverty reduction has been slow since 2008; Austria would need to raise about 48 000 people out of the risk of poverty and social exclusion to meet its Europe 2020 commitment.
Source: Eurostat (see dedicated web section: Europe 2020 headline indicators)
Data sources
More information about the origin of the data and the calculation of indicators can be obtained via the Europe 2020 indicators dedicated website.
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A more general overview of quality procedures can be found in Implementation of standard reference metadata for indicators - the ESMS Indicator Profile (ESMS-IP) (PDF file).
Context
Europe 2020 is the EU’s agenda for jobs and growth for the current decade. It emphasises smart, sustainable and inclusive growth as a way to strengthen the EU economy and prepare its structure for the challenges of the next decade. As a main objective, the strategy strives to deliver high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion in the Member States, while reducing the impact on the natural environment.
Direct access to
- Towards robust quality management for European Statistics - Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council COM(2011) 211 final.
- Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of 11 March 2009 on European statistics