In 2023, 9.5 percent of the EU population were unable to afford a meal containing meat, fish or a vegetarian equivalent every second day, 1.2 percentage points (pp) higher compared with 2022 (8.3 percent). 

In 2021, 1.5 million enterprises in the EU had their core business in the real estate sector, representing 4.8 percent of all active enterprises in the EU’s business economy.  This marked an 11 percent increase from 2020 (1.3 million enterprises).

In 2023, more than 75 percent (195.7 million) of the EU’s 20 to 64-year-olds were employed, the highest share recorded since the start of the time series in 2009. This marks three consecutive years of growth after a drop to 72 percent in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In 2022, EU countries produced 4.8 million pairs of skis and snowboards, an increase of 37 percent when compared with 2021. Almost half of these items (2.2 million; 45 percent) were produced in Austria. 

In 2023, 56 percent of people in the EU aged 16 to 74 had at least basic overall digital skills. 

In 2022, at the EU level, 34 percent of all tourism nights spent occurred in just two months, July and August. In nearly three of four EU regions at level two of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2), August was the month with the highest concentration in the number of nights spent (170 out of the 242 EU NUTS two regions). It was followed by July in 62 EU regions, covering most of Northern Europe and parts of Belgium, Czechia, Germany, France, Italy, Hungary and Slovakia. 

In 2022, 82 percent of recent graduates (ISCED 2011 levels 3-8) aged 20-34 in the EU were employed.  From 2014 to 2022, the employment rate for this group rose by seven percentage points (pp), showing a consistent rising trend interrupted only by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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In 2022, the EU produced 3.2 billion litres of ice cream, marking a five percent increase from 2021.

In 2019, the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic heavily hit the tourism sector, the gross value added directly generated by tourism amounted to an estimated EUR572 billion, or five percent of the total gross value added in the EU economy.