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Data extracted: March 2022

Planned article update: March 2023

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Employment and value added in the EU environmental economy grew faster than in the overall economy between 2000 and 2019.

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Development of key indicators for the environmental economy and the overall economy, EU, 2000–2019

• Eurostat estimates for the series Environmental economy: employment and Environmental economy: gross value added
• Environmental economy: employment - in full-time equivalents
• Index compiled for chain-linked volumes data in € million (reference year 2010; at 2010 exchange rates) for Environmental economy: gross value added and Overall economy: gross domestic product
• Overall economy: employment - in thousand persons
• Source: Eurostat (online data codes: nama_10_a10_e, nama_10_gdp, env_ac_egss1, env_ac_egss2)

This article presents statistics on employment and growth in the European Union’s (EU’s) environmental economy, as it is defined in the European environmental goods and services sector (EGSS) accounts. The environmental economy encompasses activities and products that serve either of two purposes: ‘environmental protection’ — that is, preventing, reducing and eliminating pollution or any other degradation of the environment, or ‘resource management’ — that is, preserving natural resources and safeguarding them against depletion. EGSS accounts provide information on production (output) and export of environmental goods and services and the related employment and gross value added.