In 2024, 19.5 million children in the EU were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. This figure represented 24.2% of children under the age of 18, down by 0.6 percentage points (pp) from 2023 (24.8%). At the country level, in 2024, ...
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In 2024, employment inequalities linked to disability, gender and origin were recorded in the EU. The gender employment gap in the EU was 10.0 percentage points (pp), with an employment rate of 80.8% for men and 70.8% for women. The gap ...
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In 2024, the unemployment rate for 15-74 years old in the EU fell to 5.9% of the labour force, marking a historic low since the beginning of the time series in 2009. The long-term unemployment rate, as a percentage of the labour force, ...
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In 2023, 45.1% of people aged 50 to 74 in the EU received a pension. Within this age group, 39.7% were old-age pension beneficiaries, 4.6% received disability pensions or other periodic disability benefits, and 0.8% received both types ...
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In 2024, 123 655 third-country nationals were refused entry into the EU territory at one of its external borders, a small increase of 0.3% compared with 2023. 918 925 people were found to be illegally present in an EU country, ...
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In 2023, there were on average 0.55 passenger cars per inhabitant in the EU, down 0.1 percentage points compared with 2022. This information comes from data on regional transport statistics published by Eurostat today. The article ...
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