Industry, trade and services
In November 2025, compared with October 2025, seasonally adjusted production in construction decreased by 1.1% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In October 2025, production in construction grew by 1.7% in th...
More +
More +
In November 2025, compared with October 2025, seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 0.7% 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 October 2025, industrial production grew by 0.7% in the eu...
More +
More +
In October 2025, compared with September 2025, seasonally adjusted services production increased by 0.3% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In September 2025, services production grew by 0.1% in the euro area...
More +
More +
In November 2025, compared with October 2025, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume increased by 0.2% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In October 2025, retail trade volume grew by 0.3% in the euro are...
More +
More +
In November 2025, compared with October 2025, industrial producer prices 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 October 2025, industrial producer prices grew by 0.1% in both the euro ar...
More +
More +
In October 2025, compared with September 2025, seasonally adjusted production in construction increased by 0.9% in the euro area and by 0.8% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In September 2025, production in construction fell by 0...
More +
More +
In October 2025, compared with September 2025, seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 0.8% 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 September 2025, industrial production grew by 0.2% in the...
More +
More +
In September 2025, compared with August 2025, seasonally adjusted services production remained stable in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In August 2025, services production fell by 0.1% in the euro area and b...
More +
More +
In October 2025, compared with September 2025, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume remained stable in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In September 2025, retail trade volume grew by 0.1% in the euro ar...
More +
More +
In October 2025, compared with September 2025, industrial producer prices increased 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 September 2025, industrial producer prices fell by 0.1% in both the euro area ...
More +
More +
In September 2025, compared with August 2025, seasonally adjusted production in construction decreased by 0.5% in the euro area and remained stable in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In August 2025, production in construction fell ...
More +
More +
In 2025, the estimated number of nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments in the EU reached 3.08 billion, exceeding the previous year by 61.5 million, or 2%.
The growth in tourism nights was mainly driven by an increase in nights spent by international guests (+46.1 million), while t...
More +
More +
Did you know that in 2024, nearly 249 million, or nearly two-thirds (65%) of Europeans aged 15 or older, took at least one overnight trip for personal reasons? Or that most of them preferred to travel within their own country? In fact, 71.3% of all trips were domestic. And when they did travel ab...
More +
More +
Between July and September 2025, guests spent 398.1 million nights in short-term rental accommodation in the EU, booked through Airbnb, Booking or Expedia. The total number of guest nights in the third quarter of 2025 increased by 8.7% compared with the same quarter of 2024, and by 28.2% compared...
More +
More +
According to the latest data available for October and September 2025, the production of services in the EU grew by 16.4% from February 2020, right before the Covid-10 crisis, and industrial production by 2.3%, while trade (+0.1%) and construction (+0.2%) are at almost the same level as before th...
More +
More +
This article presents key results from the Global Value Chains survey on international sourcing. International sourcing, often referred to as outsourcing, involves the partial or full relocation of business activities by enterprises to affiliated or non-affiliated partners located abroad. The res...
More +
More +
In 2024, the EU had around 33.5 million enterprises, employing 164.2 million people. Those enterprises registered a net turnover of €38.7 trillion.
Although large enterprises (more than 249 people employed) represented only 0.2% of the total number of enterprises in the EU’s business economy (5...
More +
More +
In September 2025, compared with August, the total market production increased by 0.4% in the EU and by 0.1% in the euro area.
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.e. pro...
More +
More +
Between 2021 and 2023, 80% of enterprises in the EU experienced that their global value chains were affected by at least 1 constraint or underwent reorganisation. These results come from the first global value chains survey carried out under the European business statistics regulation, building o...
More +
More +
In 2023, 50.8% of foreign affiliates controlled by the institutional units resident in the EU countries were located outside the EU.
The highest shares of foreign affiliates active outside the EU were reported as enterprises controlled by institutional units resident in Croatia (64.7%), Spain (...
More +
More +
In the third quarter of 2025, the number of registrations of EU businesses increased by 4.0% compared with the second quarter of 2025.
At the same time, the number of bankruptcy declarations increased by 4.4% compared with the second quarter of 2025.
This information comes from data on busine...
More +
More +
In 2023, only 1% of EU market producer enterprises (hereinafter enterprises) were under foreign control. More than half, 60%, were controlled by institutional units from other EU countries, while 40% resided outside the EU.
In Luxembourg, foreign-controlled enterprises represented 28% of all en...
More +
More +
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...
More +
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...
More +
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...
More +
More +
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...
More +
More +
The production in construction shows the output and activity of the construction sector. It measures changes in the volume of output on a monthly basis. Construction includes building construction and civil engineering. The construction sector in total corresponds to the NACE Rev. 2 section F. Pr...
More +
More +
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...
More +
More +
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...
More +
More +
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...
More +
More +
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...
More +
More +
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...
More +
More +
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...
More +
More +