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 February 2025, 59 085 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in EU countries, marking a 23% decrease compared with February 2024 (77 170) and a 12% decline compared with January 2025 (66 ...
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In 2024, the actual weekly hours of work for both full-time and part-time workers aged 20-64 in the EU in their main job averaged 36.0 hours, down from 37.0 hours in 2014. A closer look at EU countries reveals notable differences. In ...
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In 2023, there were around 499 000 prisoners in the EU, indicating a 3.2% increase compared with 2022. There were 111 prisoners per 100 000 people, slightly more than in 2022, when this rate was 108. In the period between 1993 and 2023, ...
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In 2023, 868 700 people in the EU were employed as authors, journalists or linguists. The number of people employed in these professions decreased by 2.5% compared with 2022. In 2023, Germany employed the largest number of authors, ...
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