Industry, trade and services
In August 2025, compared with July 2025, seasonally adjusted production in construction decreased by 0.1% in the euro area and by 0.9% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In July 2025, production in construction grew by 0.5% in the ...
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In August 2025, compared with July 2025, seasonally adjusted industrial production decreased by 1.2% in the euro area and by 1.0% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In July 2025, industrial production grew by 0.5% in the euro area ...
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In July 2025, compared with June 2025, seasonally adjusted services production decreased by 0.2% 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 2025, services production fell by 0.1% in the euro area and re...
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In August 2025, compared with July 2025, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume increased by 0.1% in the euro area and remained stable in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In July 2025, retail trade volume fell by 0.4% in the eu...
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In August 2025, compared with July 2025, industrial producer prices decreased by 0.3% 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 2025, industrial producer prices grew by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.6...
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In July 2025, compared with June 2025, seasonally adjusted production in construction increased by 0.5% in the euro area and by 0.6% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In June 2025, production in construction fell by 0.7% in the eu...
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In July 2025, compared with June 2025, seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.2% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In June 2025, industrial production fell by 0.6% in the euro area an...
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In June 2025, compared with May 2025, seasonally adjusted services production decreased by 0.1% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In May 2025, services production grew by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.7% in...
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In July 2025, compared with June 2025, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume decreased by 0.5% 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 June 2025, retail trade volume grew by 0.6% in the euro area an...
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In July 2025, compared with June 2025, industrial producer prices increased by 0.4% in the euro area and by 0.6% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In June 2025, industrial producer prices grew by 0.8% in the euro area and by 0.7% ...
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In June 2025, compared with May 2025, seasonally adjusted production in construction decreased by 0.8% in the euro area and by 0.5% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In May 2025, production in construction fell by 2.1% in the euro...
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Disclaimer: the total value of exported services in the first paragraph was corrected after publication.
In 2023, the EU exported services to countries outside the EU worth €1 440 billion. The majority (53.5%) of these exports were carried out by large enterprises with 250 or more employees. Sma...
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In 2024, the number of nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments across the EU increased by 2.7% compared with 2023, exceeding 3 billion for the first time.
Close to two-thirds (62.8%) of all overnight stays were made in hotels and similar accommodation, 23.7% in holiday and other sh...
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In 2023, there were around 33.1 million enterprises in the EU, employing 162.2 million people. Those enterprises generated a net turnover of over €38.5 trillion, leading to €10.5 trillion in value added.
Large enterprises (with more than 249 people employed) represented only 0.2% of the total ...
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In 2023, there were over 33 million enterprises in the EU. While 3.5 million new enterprises were born that year, 2.8 million enterprise deaths were registered, based on the preliminary enterprise death data. The enterprise birth rate was 10.5%, while the rate of enterprise deaths stood at 8.5%.
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In 2024, there were 1.19 billion personal and professional trips in the EU, a 4.4% increase from the 1.14 billion registered in 2023. Of the total, 850 million were domestic trips (71% of the total) and 250 million were foreign trips within the EU (21%), which means 92% of the trips made by EU re...
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In the second quarter of 2025, guests spent 245.9 million nights in short-term rental accommodation in the EU, booked via Airbnb, Booking or Expedia. As the first quarter of the year already indicated, 2025 is looking like a promising year for tourism. The total number of guest nights in the seco...
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In the first half of 2025, there were 1 279 million overnight stays in tourist accommodations across the EU, a 2.3% increase compared with the first 6 months of 2024 (1 249 million).
At country level, Malta (12.7%), Latvia (8.6%) and Poland (8.5%) had the highest increases in the share of overn...
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In June 2025, the total market production decreased by 0.2% in the EU and by 0.4% in the euro area compared with the previous month.
The total market production index (TMPI) is a composite indicator that combines 4 short-term business statistics indicators covering most of the market economy, i....
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In the second quarter of 2025, the number of registrations of EU businesses increased by 4.6% compared with the first quarter of 2025.
At the same time, the number of bankruptcy declarations increased by 1.7% compared with the first quarter of 2025.
This information comes from data on busines...
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In 2024, EU countries produced 32.7 billion (bn) litres of beer containing more than 0.5% alcohol and 2 bn litres of beer with less than 0.5% alcohol or with no alcohol content at all, totalling 34.7 bn litres.
Compared with 2023, the production of beer with more than 0.5% alcohol in the EU inc...
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In 2024, the EU produced 3.3 billion litres of ice cream, representing a 2% increase from 2023 (3.2 billion litres).
Germany remained the top producer of ice cream in the EU, producing 607 million litres in 2024. France (501 million litres) and Italy (492 million litres) followed at the top. The...
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The annual building permits data are business cycle indicators providing information on the development of granted building permits in one year. Builders apply for building permits and local building administrations issue them normally before the beginning of the construction work. Therefore b...
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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 d...
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The objective of the construction cost index is to show the development of costs incurred by the contractor/producer to carry out the construction process, in others words the cost of labour, materials and plant and overheads. The construction sector corresponds to the NACE Rev. 2 section F. Buil...
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This table presents 3 indexes showing the development of labour input in the sector of industry (excluding construction): Number of persons employed, the hours worked and the wages and salaries. The number of person employed shows the development of employment in Industry. It can be defined as th...
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The Retail Trade Index is a business cycle indicator which shows the monthly activity of the retail sector in value and volume. It is a short-term indicator for final domestic demand. It should be noted that the volume of sales is different from the volume of (retail) trade services. The latter t...
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The Retail Trade Index is a business cycle indicator which shows the monthly activity of the retail sector in value and volume. It is a short-term indicator for final domestic demand. It should be noted that the volume of sales is different from the volume of (retail) trade services. The latter t...
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The Retail Trade Index is a business cycle indicator which shows the monthly activity of the retail sector in value and volume. It is a short-term indicator for final domestic demand. It should be noted that the volume of sales is different from the volume of (retail) trade services. The latter t...
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The Retail Trade Index is a business cycle indicator which shows the monthly activity of the retail sector in value and volume. It is a short-term indicator for final domestic demand. It should be noted that the volume of sales is different from the volume of (retail) trade services. The latter t...
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The Retail Trade Index is a business cycle indicator which shows the monthly activity of the retail sector in value and volume. It is a short-term indicator for final domestic demand. It should be noted that the volume of sales is different from the volume of (retail) trade services. The latter t...
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The Retail Trade Index is a business cycle indicator which shows the monthly activity of the retail sector in value and volume. It is a short-term indicator for final domestic demand. It should be noted that the volume of sales is different from the volume of (retail) trade services. The latter t...
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The Retail Trade Index is a business cycle indicator which shows the monthly activity of the retail sector in value and volume. It is a short-term indicator for final domestic demand. It should be noted that the volume of sales is different from the volume of (retail) trade services. The latter t...
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