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In 2025, the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the EU’s economy and households were estimated at 3.3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent, covering all economic activities and households combined. This represents a 17.2% decrease compared with 2015. This information comes from early estimates for 2...

In March 2026, 47 100 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in EU countries, a 19% decrease compared with March 2025 (58 025) and a 1% increase compared with February 2026 (46 420). There were also 10 075 subsequent applicants, representing a 28% incr...

In 2025, the employment rate of young adults aged 20-34 who recently graduated from upper secondary or tertiary levels of education in the EU was 83.0%, up from 82.3% in 2024.  In the last 11 years, this rate has improved by 7.5 percentage points (pp). The employment rate for recent graduates wit...

In the first quarter of 2026, the employment rate of people aged 20-64 in the EU stood at 76.3%, up from 76.2% in the fourth quarter of 2025. Labour market slack – all persons who have an unmet need for employment, including unemployed people – stood at 10.9% of the extended labour force aged 20-...

In 2025, 63.6% of enterprises in the EU with 10 or more employees used any type of social media, up from 61.1% in 2023.  Enterprises use social media for example to increase their online presence, improve marketing, communicate with partners, customers, and other organisations, and facilitate col...

Between the fourth quarter of 2025 and the first quarter of 2026, 3 million unemployed people aged 15-74 in the EU found a job (22.9% of all unemployed in the fourth quarter of 2025). During this period, 7.1 million (53.2%) remained unemployed and 3.2 million unemployed people (23.9%) transitione...

In the first quarter of 2026, the average price of agricultural output in the EU decreased by 2.9% compared with the same quarter in 2025. This was a slightly higher rate of decline than that of the last quarter of 2025 (-1.7%).  The average price of agricultural inputs (goods and services consum...

In 2025, the unemployment rate in the EU was 6.0% for people aged 15-74 in the labour force, up slightly from 5.9% in 2024.  Among EU countries, Spain had the highest unemployment rate at 10.5%, followed by Finland (9.7%) and Greece (8.9%). The lowest rates were in Czechia (2.8%), Poland and Malt...

In 2024, EU households used 9.54 million terajoules of energy, a slight decline (-0.2%) from 9.57 million terajoules in 2023. Energy use in households has been decreasing for 3 consecutive years, after the all-time peak of 10.98 million terajoules in 2021. Households, or the residential sector, r...

On 30 April 2026, a total of 4.37 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine had temporary protection status in the EU. Compared with the end of March 2026, the total number of people from Ukraine under temporary protection increased by 42 990 (+1.0%). The EU countries hosting the highest number of...

The 2026 edition of Key figures on European business brings together all the key data on business activities and structure, investment, productivity, globalisation, technology and tourism. Today, we focus on the trade in wind turbines, as analysing the EU’s production and trade of green energy pr...