Archive:Europe 2020 indicators - Luxembourg
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This Statistics Explained article is outdated and has been archived - for recent information on Europe 2020 strategy see here.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 Luxembourg.
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Overview
Luxembourg has continuously exceeded its target on early leavers from education and training since 2009. The country has the most ambitious target on tertiary education across the EU, aiming for 66 % of the population aged 30 to 34 having attained tertiary education by 2020. Despite the fact that Luxembourg has the fourth biggest share of tertiary education graduates aged 30 to 34, it still has further to go to meet its national target than other Member States. Although in 2018 Luxembourg was closer to its employment target than the EU as a whole, a 0.9 percentage point gap persists. In 2017, the country spent less on R&D as a percentage of GDP than the EU overall and it has moved further away from its national target since 2008. The number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion increased by 75 % between 2008 and 2017, pushing Luxembourg further from its national target. In terms of climate change mitigation, it did not reach its national target on the expansion of renewable energy and had the lowest shares of renewables in gross final energy consumption in the EU in 2017. Also, the 14.6 % reduction in ESD GHG emissions by 2017 (compared with the ESD base year) was not enough for the country to reach its national target to reduce emissions by 20 %. On the other hand, Luxembourg has continued to meet its primary energy consumption target since 2012.
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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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