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About Eurostat
Based in Luxembourg, Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Community. Eurostat’s task is to provide the European Union with statistics that enable comparisons between countries and regions.
Eurostat does not collect data. National Statistics Institutes of Member States verify and analyse national data, and then send them to Eurostat. The office consolidates the data and ensures they are comparable using a harmonised methodology. Eurostat tries to arrive at a common statistical 'language' that embraces concepts, methods, structures and technical standards.
The euro is the single currency for the Economic Monetary Union (EMU) and is compared with other currencies such as the dollar and the yen. With the birth of the euro there was a need to measure the development of the EMU, and this has fuelled the harmonisation of methodologies between member states. Just as there is a single inflation and GDP rate for the USA, Eurostat now publishes economic indicators for the whole euro-zone.
All Eurostat data is available free on the Eurostat website. Eurostat also publishes a wide variety of paper and electronic publications.
Eurostat helps give customers access to Eurostat data by working in partnership with official European Statistical Data Services (ESDS) based in most Member States. EU Statistics UK is the official European Statistical Data Service for the UK
Eurostat Data
Choose from:
- a selection of macroeconomic and social data
- a range of topics covering economic, financial and social data, across nine Eurostat themes
- a hierarchy of domains, collections and tables for each theme, to help you pinpoint the data you require
- a variety of coverage areas: European Union (EU27), the euro-zone, Candidate Countries and some other countries (although data for countries outside of the EU27 is limited)
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