The COVID-19 pandemic itself and the accompanying restrictions have impacted on the supply of and demand for many goods and services produced and traded within the EU’s business economy.
Statistics
In 2020, the EU had an estimated 159 million hectares of forests. Their area has increased by almost 10% since 1990 (145 million hectares).
Source:
Eurostat, 21 March 2021
In 2020, 20.6% of the EU population was aged 65 years or over; this was 3.0 percentage points higher than the corresponding share from a decade earlier.
Source:
Eurostat, 16 March 2021
Source:
Eurostat, 8 March 2021
Women held 33% of seats in national parliaments in the EU in 2020. This share has been rising since 2004, when women accounted for around one-fifth (21%) of members in national parliaments.
Source:
Eurostat, 7 March 2021
In 2019, 77.9 million people in the EU were employed in knowledge-intensive services, of whom 31.8 million were men and 46.1 million were women.
Source:
Eurostat, 4 March 2021
The mean age of women in the EU on giving birth to their first child is gradually increasing and stood at 29.4 years in 2019.
Source:
Eurostat, 24 Φεβρουαρίου 2021
Online shopping is continuing to grow in the European Union (EU).
Source:
Eurostat, 17 February 2021
In 2019, women in the EU aged over 65 received a pension that was on average 29% lower than that of men.
Source:
Eurostat, 3 February 2021
