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Inflation in the euro area
Updated 17/05/2024
Euro area annual inflation was 2.4 % in April 2024, stable compared with March 2024. Looking at the main components of euro area inflation, services had the highest annual rate in April (3.7 %, compared with 4.0 % in March), followed by food, alcohol & tobacco (2.8 %, compared with 2.6 % in March), non-energy industrial goods (0.9 %, compared with 1.1 % in March), and energy (-0.6 %, compared with -1.8 % in March). More ...
Among persons aged 20–64 years living in the EU in 2023, 80.5 % of nationals were part of the labour force, in other words employed or unemployed. This labour force participation rate was higher than for non-EU citizens (71.8 %) but lower than for citizens of other EU countries (83.4 %). More ...
In the EU, 13.5 % of nationals were self-employed in 2023 – see Figure 1. This was more than the shares observed for citizens of other Member States (10.9 %) and for non-EU citizens (10.4 %). More ...
Excess mortality statistics
Updated 16/05/2024
The lowest number of additional deaths was recorded in the first week of March 2024, with -8 038 deaths below the 2016-2016 baseline. Compared with the previous year, in March 2023, there were 5 876 additional deaths in the EU compared with the 2016-2019 baseline. More ...