Industry, trade and services

In September 2024, compared with August 2024, seasonally adjusted industrial production decreased by 2.0% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In August 2024, industrial production grew by 1.5% in the euro area an...
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In August 2024, compared with July 2024, seasonally adjusted services production increased by 0.4% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In July 2024, services production grew by 1.1% in the euro area and by 1.3% i...
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In September 2024, compared with August 2024, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume increased by 0.5% in the euro area and by 0.3% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In August 2024, retail trade volume grew by 1.1% in the euro a...
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In September 2024, compared with August 2024, industrial producer prices decreased by 0.6% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In August 2024, industrial producer prices grew by 0.6% in the euro area and by 0.4% ...
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In August 2024, compared with July 2024, seasonally adjusted production in construction increased by 0.1% in the euro area and by 0.4% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In July 2024, production in construction fell by 0.5% in the eur...
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In August 2024, compared with July 2024, seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 1.8% in the euro area and by 1.3% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In July 2024, industrial production fell by 0.5% in the euro area and...
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In July 2024, compared with June 2024, seasonally adjusted services production increased by 1.0% in the euro area and by 1.2% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In June 2024, services production fell by 0.8% in the euro area and by 0....
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In August 2024, compared with July 2024, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume increased by 0.2% in the euro area and by 0.3% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In July 2024, retail trade volume remained stable in the euro area ...
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In August 2024, compared with July 2024, industrial producer prices increased by 0.6% in the euro area and by 0.4% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In July 2024, industrial producer prices grew by 0.7% in the euro area and by 0.8% i...
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In July 2024, compared with June 2024, seasonally adjusted production in construction remained stable in the euro area and increased by 0.2% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In June 2024, production in construction grew by 0.6% in t...
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In July 2024, compared with June 2024, seasonally adjusted industrial production decreased by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.1% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In June 2024, industrial production remained unchanged in the euro area...
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In the third quarter of 2024, the number of bankruptcy declarations of EU businesses increased by 2.7% compared with the second quarter of 2024.  At the same time, business registrations also went up by 2.2% compared with the second quarter of 2024.  This information comes from data on business re...
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In 2022, there was a total of over 32 million enterprises in the EU, 3.4 million new enterprises were born that year, and according to the preliminary data, 2.8 million enterprise deaths were registered. The enterprise birth rate was 10.5% while the preliminary rate of enterprise deaths stood at 8.7...
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In 2022, the EU had 32.3 million enterprises, employing 160 million persons. Of that total, 99% were micro and small enterprises employing up to 49 persons. Micro and small enterprises employed 77.5 million persons, i.e. almost half (48%) of the total number of all persons employed in enterprises. ...
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In 2023, 6.2 million tonnes of pasta were produced in the EU, worth €8.9 billion. While the volume was comparable with 2022 (6.1 million tonnes), there was an increase of €1.1 billion in terms of value.  Italy was by far the leading EU producer of pasta, with 4.2 million tonnes produced last year, ...
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In 2023, the EU registered a total of 2.9 billion nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments, up from 2.8 billion in 2022. Almost 1.6 billion nights were spent by domestic tourists and close to 1.4 billion by international guests. Between 2022 and 2023, the share of nights spent by intern...
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In 2023, the number of people travelling abroad for tourism had fully recovered from the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, with restrictions lifted for all destinations. The 3 EU regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2) with the highest number of nights spent ...
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In 2023, EU residents made 1.14 billion tourism trips with at least 1 overnight stay, a +5.7% (+61.6 million) increase compared with 2022.   Out of the total, most of the trips in 2023 (1 029 million, representing 90% of the total) were made for personal reasons and the remaining 110 million were p...
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During the second quarter of 2024, guests spent 208.8 million nights in short-term rental accommodation in the EU, booked via Airbnb, Booking, Expedia Group or TripAdvisor. This corresponds to an increase of 16.2% compared with the same period in 2023. In April 2024, 53.5 million nights were spent ...
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Happy International Coffee Day!

Oct 1, 2024
Eurostat
In 2023, the EU imported 2.7 million tonnes of coffee from non-EU countries, worth €10.6 billion. The amount remained almost stable compared with 2013 (also 2.7 million tonnes), but the value increased significantly from 7.3 billion in 2013 to 10.6 billion in 2023. Most of the coffee imported in 20...
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In 2022, large enterprises in the EU with 250 or more employees dominated services exports to non-EU countries, accounting for 56% of the total. Small enterprises (up to 49 employees) contributed 14%, surpassing medium-sized enterprises (50 to 249 employees) with a share of 10% of the exports, while...
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In the second quarter of 2024, there were 780.1 million overnight stays in tourist accommodations across the EU, a slight increase of 0.2% compared with the same quarter of 2023. April recorded 193.6 million nights (-8.7% compared with April 2023), May 272.1 million (+7.9%) and June 314.5 million (-...
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Production in services

Nov 19, 2024
Eurostat

The index of services production is a business indicator that measures the monthly changes in the production volume of the services industries (excluding financial and public services). Seasonally adjusted euro area and EU series are calculated by aggregating the seasonally adjusted national data...
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Building permits - monthly data

Nov 19, 2024
Eurostat
The objective of the building permit index is to show the future development of construction activity in terms of per square meter of useful floor. The current base year is 2021 (Index 2021 = 100). The index is presented in seasonally adjusted form. Growth rates with respect to the previous month (M...
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The Turnover Index is a business cycle indicator showing the monthly evolution of the market of goods and services in the industrial sector. It also records the evolution of turnover over longer periods of time. The turnover of industry index is not deflated. It is therefore the objective of this in...
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The Turnover Index is a business cycle indicator showing the monthly evolution of the market of goods and services in the industrial sector. It also records the evolution of turnover over longer periods of time. The turnover of industry index is not deflated. It is therefore the objective of this in...
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Turnover in industry - capital goods

Nov 19, 2024
Eurostat
The Turnover Index is a business cycle indicator showing the monthly evolution of the market of goods and services in the industrial sector. It also records the evolution of turnover over longer periods of time. The turnover of industry index is not deflated. It is therefore the objective of this in...
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The Turnover Index is a business cycle indicator showing the monthly evolution of the market of goods and services in the industrial sector. It also records the evolution of turnover over longer periods of time. The turnover of industry index is not deflated. It is therefore the objective of this in...
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Turnover in industry - manufacturing

Nov 19, 2024
Eurostat
The Turnover Index is a business cycle indicator showing the monthly evolution of the market of goods and services in the industrial sector. It also records the evolution of turnover over longer periods of time. The turnover of industry index is not deflated. It is therefore the objective of this in...
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The industrial domestic output price index measures the average price development of all goods and related services resulting from the activity of the industry sector and sold on the domestic market. The domestic output price index shows the monthly development of transaction prices of economic acti...
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The industrial domestic output price index measures the average price development of all goods and related services resulting from the activity of the industry sector and sold on the domestic market. The domestic output price index shows the monthly development of transaction prices of economic acti...
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The industrial domestic output price index measures the average price development of all goods and related services resulting from the activity of the industry sector and sold on the domestic market. The domestic output price index shows the monthly development of transaction prices of economic acti...
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