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Updated 31/05/2024 Many tourist activities have always been highly seasonal. Leading reasons are environmental factors, such as climate conditions or geographical location, together with social and cultural factors, such as school holidays. During peak vacation times, tourist areas may face overcrowding and resource strain. Conversely, quieter periods can lead to underutilised facilities and job instability due to fluctuating demand. More ... Updated 31/05/2024 In 2023, 200 million households resided in the EU. In the same year, the EU had the highest number of single adult households without children (73.4 million), followed by couples without children (48.4 million), other type of households without children and couples with children (30.6 million and 30.3 million respectively).
The total number of households in the EU increased by 7.0 % between 2013 and 2022. Single adult households without children experienced the fastest growth rate of 21.0 % over the same period (see Figure 1). Households made up of couples (according to the legal marital status or de facto relationship) without children increased by 5.9 %. More ... Updated 31/05/2024 Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 2.6 % in May 2024, up from 2.4 % in April 2024.
Looking at the main components of euro area inflation, services is expected to have the highest annual rate in May (4.1 %, compared with 3.7 % in April), followed by food, alcohol & tobacco (2.6 %, compared with 2.8 % in April), non-energy industrial goods (0.8 %, compared with 0.9 % in April) and energy (0.3 %, compared with -0.6 % in April). More ... Updated 30/05/2024 In 2021, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the EU countries represented 15.2 % of the world's GDP expressed in purchasing power standards (PPS).
Figure 1 shows the shares of all countries (outside the EU) that have a share larger than 1 % of world GDP expressed in purchasing power standards (PPS). More ... |