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In 2021, just over a quarter of the EU population (27.2 %) received at least one pension (see Figure 1). Among the EU Member States, the proportion of the population receiving a pension was highest in Slovakia (33.2 %) and was just below 33.0 % in Luxembourg and Lithuania. By contrast, the share of the population that were beneficiaries of at least one pension was below 20.0 % in Cyprus (19.0 %) and Malta (19.2 %). More ...
Updated 11/06/2024
Between 2017 and 2019, both EU exports of intermediate and capital goods as well as final goods and services increased (Figure 1). The COVID-19 pandemic caused a decline for all of them. The largest decrease was for final services, while intermediate services decreased much less. Final services recorded the sharpest decline in 2020 (25 p.p. below the 2017 levels for exports and 29 p.p. for imports). This dramatic drop can be mostly attributed to the COVID-19 related sanitary and health restrictions especially during early to mid 2020. Final services are mostly driven by the travel item (expenditure of foreign tourists and travelers). Since there was practically no travel for the biggest part of 2020, or only very limited, the result is visible in the values of final services for 2020. The decreases for goods fell between these two extremes. In 2022, all categories of goods and services had reached their highest levels since 2017. In 2023, however, exports of intermediate goods and services as well as final goods decreased while the exports of final services and capital goods increased.
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Updated 10/06/2024
On 30 April 2024, about 4.2 million people (4 198 490), who had fled Ukraine as a consequence of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, were under temporary protection in the EU. The number of temporary protection beneficiaries relative to the EU population was 9.4 per thousand people at the end of April 2024. Among the EU countries, the highest ratios were observed in Czechia (31.9), ahead of Lithuania (27.0). More ...
New 10/06/2024
In 2021, the EU's financial and insurance activities sector (Section K) comprised a total of over 759 000 enterprises, which represented 2.5 % of all enterprises active in the business economy (Sections B to N and P to R, as well as Divisions S95 and S96). These enterprises employed 4.9 million persons and accumulated a net turnover of €2.3 trillion. In 2021, the financial and insurance activities sector generated over €1.0 trillion in value added, accounting for 11 % of the EU’s business economy value added.
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