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Date: May 14, 2025 Producer prices of agricultural products in March 2025: +1.5% on March 2024
According to provisional calculations, the index of producer prices of agricultural products (excluding turnover tax) decreased by 0.3% between February and March 2025 to stand at 143.3 (2020 = 100). That was a year-on-year increase of 1.5%. In …
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Date: May 14, 2025 Classification overview
This section offers an overview of the most frequently used statistical classifications. More EU statistics classifications are provided on the "EU vocabularies" website of the Publications Office of the European Union.
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Date: May 9, 2025 Public and private flows for development cooperation
In 2023, Official Development Assistance (ODA) and other official and private flows from the Federal Republic of Germany to developing countries amounted to euro 62.5 billion euros - before revision of the Deutsche Bundesbank (previous year: 49.1 …
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Date: May 7, 2025 304 million migrants worldwide
In 2024, the number of international migrants worldwide was 304 million. They accounted for 3.7 percent of the world's population in 2024.
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Date: May 6, 2025 Overcrowded households
In 2024, 11,5% of Germany’s population lived in overcrowded dwellings. This means that the household had too few rooms compared to the number of inhabitants. In the EU, the average was significantly higher.
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Date: May 6, 2025 Germany: 12.0% living in households overburdened by housing costs
In 2024, 12.0% of Germany’s population lived in households which were overburdened by housing costs – i.e. they spent more than 40% of the total disposable household income on housing.
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Date: May 5, 2025 Not enough money to keep homes heated in winter
The EU-SILC survey 2024 shows that 9.2% of the population in the European Union was financially unable to adequately heat their homes. This problem was most wide-spread in Bulgaria and Greece (each 19.0%).
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Date: May 5, 2025 Working poor: at-risk-of-poverty rate among employed persons
In 2024, 6.5% of all employed persons in Germany were living below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. Employees with temporary contracts and part-time workers were disproportionately affected.
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Date: May 5, 2025 Germany has the highest proportion of rental tenants in the EU
In 2024, more than half of the population (52.8%) of Germany lived in rented accommodation.
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Date: April 29, 2025 Government deficit: 16 EU member states do not exceed 3% of GDP
The EU Stability and Growth Pact stipulates that Eurozone members must adhere to certain rules and ensure budgetary discipline. The annual government deficit is not to exceed 3% of the gross domestic product. The public debt must not exceed 60% of GDP.