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Returns to third countries up by 13% in Q2 2025

In the second quarter of 2025, 116 495 non-EU citizens were ordered to leave an EU country, and 28 355 people were returned to third countries f…

83% of people live within a 15-minute drive of a hospital

In 2023, the share of the EU population living within a 15-minute drive of a hospital was 83.2%. Among EU regions at level 3 of the nomenclature…

Mark your calendar: join our webinar on tourism

Did you know that of the nearly 3 billion nights spent in tourist accommodation in the EU in 2023, 12% were stays in only 4 regions – Canarias (…

When do young Europeans leave their parental home?

In 2022, young people across the EU left their parental home on average at the age of 26.4 years. However, this average varied among EU countrie…

How often did Europeans consult a doctor in 2021?

The COVID-19 pandemic placed medical professionals under intense pressure and impacted access to consultations in many other specialities not re…

First-time asylum applications stabilised in November 2022

In November 2022, 99 200 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in the EU Member States, approximat…

Recent social policy developments in Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Luxembourg

Six new Flash Reports prepared by the European Social Policy Network (ESPN) are now available and provide information on recent social policy de…

Emergency support instrument

The emergency support instrument enables the EU to support its Member States when a crisis reaches unprecedented scale and impact, with wide-ran…

Trips to mountains by EU residents

Mountains were one of the main attractions in 13% of personal trips made by EU residents in 2016. People living in Slovakia visited mountains th…

Health care expenditure in the EU

The most recent statistics on health care expenditure published by Eurostat indicate the range of expenditure on health care across European Uni…

World Mental Health Day: data on chronic depression

To mark World Mental Health Day today, Eurostat is highlighting the statistics which indicate that in 2014, 7 % of the European Union (EU) popul…

Are 570 000 deaths per year in the EU avoidable?

In the European Union (EU), 1.7 million persons aged less than 75 died in 2015. Of those, more than 570 000 (or 33.1% of total deaths) could be…

Immigration in EU Member States

A total of 4.7 million people immigrated to one of the 28 EU Member States in 2015. This figure includes both immigration from outside the EU an…