Eurostat has recently announced that another peer review report within the third round of European Statistical System (ESS) peer reviews — the peer review report on Cyprus — is now publicly available on Eurostat’s thematic web page and on the web page of Cyprus’ Statistical Service. 

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.

As a probable reflection of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on people’s lives, data on overall life satisfaction in the EU show that in 2021, EU citizens were slightly less satisfied with their lives than in 2018.

Most tourism destinations in the EU are mainly visited during specific months of the year. Very often, demand is strongly concentrated on just a couple of months, mainly during the summer. 

In 2020, tourism was among the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the travel restrictions as well as other precautionary measures taken in response. In 2020, the number of nights spent at European Union (EU) tourist accommodation establishments totalled 1,4 billion, down by 52 percent compared with 2019.

In 2019, the number of nights spent in tourist accommodation in the European Union (EU) had reached more than 3,2 billion, up by 2,4 percent compared with 2018.

Since 2009, there has been a steady increase in the number of nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments in the EU, notably driven by a rise in nights spent by non-residents of the country visited.

In 2019, Spain (469 million nights, +0,5 percents compared with 2018) retained its lead, ahead of France (446 million,
+0,8 percent), Germany (436 million, +4 percent), Italy (433 million, +0,9 percent) and the UUK (375 million, +5,7 percent).

These early estimates, which include nights spent whether for business or leisure, come from an article issued by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

The number of nights spent in tourist accommodation in 2019 grew in nearly all member states, with the largest increases being observed in Slovakia (+12,6 percent) and Lithuania (+10,0 percent), followed by the Netherlands (+6,8 percent), the UK (+5,7 percent) and Romania (+5,6 percent).

In contrast, the only decreases were registered in Greece (-3 percent) and Malta (-2,7 percent).

In the EU, the number of nights spent in tourist accommodation by residents grew at the same pace (+2,4 percent) between 2018 and 2019 as those spent by non-residents (+2,4 percent).

Almost every EU member state recorded an increase in the number of tourism nights spent by residents, with the highest increases recorded in Slovakia (+15,1 percent), Cyprus (+13 percent), Croatia (+10,0 percent), Lithuania (+9,9 percent) and Malta (+9,2 percent).

According to Eurostat, in 2017 1,043 billion passengers travelled by air in the European Union (EU), up by seven percent compared with 2016 and by 39 percent compared with 2009.