In 2023, the EU spent €1 720 billion in healthcare expenditure, equivalent to 10.0% of the EU’s gross domestic product (GDP).
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Risk of poverty does not only affect people living in households with low work intensity or people without employment.
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Eurostat, 3 November 2025
In the second quarter of 2025, 10.8% of employed people aged 20-64 in the EU worked more than 45 hours per week in their main and second job combined.
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Eurostat, 7 October 2025
In the second quarter of 2025, seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 0.1% in the euro area and by 0.2% in the EU, compared with the previous quarter.
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Eurostat, 5 September 2025
In the second quarter of 2025, the number of registrations of EU businesses increased by 4.6% compared with the first quarter of 2025.
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Eurostat, 18 August 2025
Real household income per capita in the OECD increased by 0.1% in the first quarter of 2025, mirroring the growth in real GDP per capita.
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OECD, 7 August 2025
In the second quarter of 2025, seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 0.1% in the euro area and by 0.2% in the EU, compared with the previous quarter, according to a preliminary flash estimate publis
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Eurostat, 30 July 2025
In 2023, 60.0% of students in upper secondary general education across the EU studied 2 or more foreign languages as compulsory subjects or as compulsory curriculum options.
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Eurostat, 14 July 2025
In 2024, almost half (49.8%) of households with children in the EU had 1 child, 37.6% had 2 children, and 12.6% had 3 or more children.
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Eurostat, 7 July 2025
Data from the labour force survey, collected from old-age pensioners in the EU in 2023, show that 56.4% of self-employed worked after having received their first old-age pension.
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Eurostat, 6 Ιουνίου 2025