The European Union is a supranational organization founded in 1957 (under the name European Economic Community) currently comprised of 27 European states, which aims to facilitate economic and political cooperation on the European continent. The current member states of the EU, in alphabetical order, are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden. Additionally, the United Kingdom was a member of the EU from 1973 until 2020, with the country voting to leave the European Union in 2016. There are currently also nine candidate countries (countries in the process of joining the EU): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Georgia, and Ukraine; as well as a potential candidate, Kosovo. The Founding Six: 1957 The European Economic Community was founded through the 1957 Treaty of Rome by Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The six countries were united by the aim of integrating their economies together in such a way which would provide economic prosperity on the European continent and to prevent future conflicts from arising between the countries. This was particularly informed by the French and German politicians, who wished to prevent their countries going to war, as they had done three times over the preceding century (1870-71, 1914-18, and 1939-45). The treaty is considered fundamental to the functioning of the European Union, with the famous statement at its beginning that the countries were seeking to pursue "ever closer union". The First Enlargement: 1973 In 1973, additional countries joined the European Community for the first time. Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom joined the community on the 1st of January 1973, with Ireland and Denmark having held referendums during 1972, with 83 percent voting in favor in Ireland and 63 percent voting in favor in Denmark. Norway had planned to join along with the three other countries, however, their citizens rejected the proposal in a referendum with 54 percent voting against it. The United Kingdom held a referendum in 1975, two years after joining, in which its citizens confirmed the government's decision to join, with 67 percent voting in favor. The UK had been an applicant to join the community since 1963, but had been blocked by French President Charles de Gaulle numerous times, due to his suspicions that the British were too influenced by the United States. The Southern Enlargement: 1981-1986 In 1981 Greece became the first of three southern European countries who had recently transitioned from military dictatorship to democracy to join the European Community. Greek democracy had been restored in 1975, following seven years of rule by a military junta. Portugal and Spain later joined in 1986, as the Carnation Revolution of 1974 had moved Portugal towards free, multi-party elections, while the death of Spain's long-serving dictator General Francisco Franco in 1975 opened up the space for democracy to re-emerge. Some European politicians were hesitant to admit countries with such short histories of democracy and lower living standards than the rest of the bloc, however, there was also a desire to integrate these countries and to prevent a slide back towards authoritarianism. The Third Enlargement: 1995 In 1995, Austria, Finland, and Sweden became the next three countries to join the European Union (the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 had renamed the EEC to the EU). These three countries had a long history of cooperation with EU countries, being closely tied historically and culturally to certain member states (Sweden and Finland to Denmark, and Austria to Germany), as well as having been long-standing members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), an organization which facilitates the economic integration of non-EU countries with the EU. Norway had once again planned to join along with these three states, however, its citizens rejected the proposal with 52 percent voting against in a 1994 referendum. The same occurred in Switzerland, whose voters rejected joining the EU by a razor-thin margin, with 50.3 percent voting against. The Eastern Enlargement: 2004-present Since 2004, 13 countries have joined the European Union, almost doubling the size of the bloc. The 2004 enlargement is often referred to as the 'eastern enlargement' as eight post-communist states in central and eastern Europe (Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia) joined. Alongside these countries, the Mediterranean island states of Cyprus and Malta also joined the EU in 2004. Later, in 2007 Bulgaria and Romania became the next post-communist countries to join, while Croatia became the second country from the former Yugoslavia (a communis...

This statistic presents the number of member states in the European Union from 1958 to 2019.

Member States by year of entry

1958: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands 1973: Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom* 1981: Greece 1986: Portugal, Spain 1995: Austria, Finland, Sweden 2004: Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia 2007: Bulgaria, Romania 2013: Croatia

The number authority table is a controlled vocabulary which lists a set of cardinal and ordinal numbers in the 24 official languages of the EU. It is mainly used for numbering the issues. It contains numbers from 1 to 31, decimals from 40 to 100 and some bigger round number.

Poland Number of Buses was up 2.4% in 2019, from a year earlier. Need to compare country statistics and get a global overview? Find all data easily.

The number of employed persons in European Union increased to 202264 Thousand in the second quarter of 2025 from 200618 Thousand in the first quarter of 2025. This dataset provides - European Union Employed Persons - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

In 2023, ******* had the highest number of organic importers in the European Union (EU-27) at ***** followed by ****** with ***. The Netherlands had approximately *** organic importers.

This statistic presents the number of organic processors in the European Union (EU-27) from 2006 to 2023. The number of organic processors has increased from around ** thousand in 2006 to about ***** thousand by 2023.

As of the first quarter of 2024, there were approximately 201 million people in employment in the European Union. This figure marks a significant improvement on the previous years, when unemployment in the EU had risen due to the effects of the inflation caused by the rise of the energy prices. Employment in the EU reached a low point during this period of around 188 million people employed in the second quarter of 2020, since which it has risen rapidly, only declining marginally between quarter four of 2020 and quarter one of 2021. The recent history of EU employment growth Total employment in the EU has risen by almost 20 million people since the low point following the great recession and Eurozone crisis in quarter one of 2013. The early 2010s were a particularly difficiult time for the European Union, as the global financial crisis had caused the collapse of property and asset markets, particularly in Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain. These countries were in many cases forced to provide extraordinary financial assistance to financial institutions, which ballooned their national debt and finally led to sovereign debt crises, with the ECB and IMF stepping in to provide bailouts. These successive crises, as well as the constrained fiscal approach to solving the crises, led to a prolonged period of falling total employment. As the waves of crises receded, the EU went through a prolonged period of job growth, driven in particular by Germany's period of export-led growth from 2015 onwards, in which total employment grew in the EU consistently from quarter two of 2013 to quarter four of 2019.

The number of visits from the European Union to the United Kingdom continued to grow in 2024 over the previous year, after shrinking in 2021 due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Despite the annual increase, inbound trips from EU member countries to the UK remained below pre-pandemic levels, totaling ***** million in 2024. That year, the number of visits from the UK to the European Union also rose compared to 2023 but did not catch up with pre-pandemic figures.

EU EE: Number of Motor Vehicles: Newly Registered: Passenger Cars data was reported at 2,566.000 Unit in Jun 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2,568.000 Unit for May 2018. EU EE: Number of Motor Vehicles: Newly Registered: Passenger Cars data is updated monthly, averaging 1,675.000 Unit from Jan 2008 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 126 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,797.000 Unit in Apr 2008 and a record low of 562.000 Unit in Feb 2010. EU EE: Number of Motor Vehicles: Newly Registered: Passenger Cars data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by European Automobile Manufacturers' Association. The data is categorized under World Trend Plus’s Association: Automobile Sector – Table EE.ACEA: No of Motor Vehicles: Newly Registered.

This dataset provides an overview of the most recent and most pertinent annual transport-related statistics in Europe. It covers the European Union and its 28 Member States and, as far as possible, the current EU candidate countries and the EFTA countries.
The content of this pocketbook is based on a range of sources including Eurostat, international organisations, national statistics and, where no data were available, own estimates. Own estimates have mainly been produced to get an idea of the EU total. At the level of individual countries, they are merely indicative and should by no means be (mis-)interpreted as ‘official’ data.
The publication consists of three parts: (1) a general part with general economic and other relevant data, (2) a transport part covering both passenger and freight transport as well as other transport-related data, and, finally, (3) an energy and environmental part with data on the impact which the transport sector has on the environment. Most of the tables have data up to 2015; where available, more recent data have been provided

In 2023, there were approximately 35.4 million part-time workers in the European Union, an increase of around ten million when compared with 2002. During this timeframe, the number of part-time workers has steadily increased in almost every year, in contrast to the number of full-time workers in the EU, which declined considerably after the great recession in 2008. The years of 2021 and 2022, when the COVID-19 pandemic restricted employment opportunities within the EU, are the only years with declining numbers of part-time workers during this period.

European Number of Train Wagons by Country, 2023 Discover more data with ReportLinker!

International tourism, number of arrivals in European Union was reported at 968873375 in 2019, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. European Union - International tourism, number of arrivals - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

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112 is the EU-wide emergency number. The present survey found that EU citizens remained in general unfamiliar with this number, with just over a quarter (27%) correctly identifying 112 as the number to call anywhere in the EU in the event of an emergency. There has been only a slight increase in Europeans' awareness of the single emergency number 112 over the past 6 years. On the positive side, the awareness of those who travel between Member States is higher (39%).

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• Volume A: Countries
• Volume AA: Groups of countries
• Volume A' (AP): Trends
• Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
• Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
• Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
• Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer

A collection of cropped vehicle license plates from across the EU (primarily Germany) for training automated license plate detection and extraction ML and OCR models. German plates are further sourced from a variety of states, allowing for sticker detection, extraction, and state classification models to be further developed.

This dataset is used in the SODALITE Vehicle IoT use case for training automated license plate recognition models.

Description: These are research indicators of doctorate holders in Europe that were compiled from the criteria and factors of the Eurostat. This dataset consists of data in five categories (i.e. Career Development of Doctorate Holders; Labour Market - Job Vacancy Statistics; Skill-related Statistics; European and International Co-patenting in EPO Applications and Ownership of Inventors in EPO Applications). The Eurostat Research Indicators consist of (1) Doctorate holders who have studied, worked or carried out research in another EU country (%); (2) Doctorate holders by activity status (%); (3) Doctorate holders by sex and age group; (4) Employed doctorate holders working as researchers by length of stay with the same employer (%); (5) Employed doctorate holders working as researchers by job mobility and sectors of performance over the last 10 years (%); (6) Employed doctorate holders by length of stay with the same employer and sectors of performance (%); (7) Employed doctorate holders by occupation (ISCO_88, %); (8) Employed doctorate holders by occupation (ISCO_08, %); (9) Employed doctorate holders in non-managerial and non-professional occupations by fields of science (%); (10) Level of dissatisfaction of employed doctorate holders by reason and sex (%); (11) National doctorate holders having lived or stayed abroad in the past 10 years by previous region of stay (%); (12) National doctorate holders having lived or stayed abroad in the past 10 years by reason for returning into the country (%); (13) Non-EU doctorate holders in total doctorate holders (%); (14) Unemployment rate of doctorate holders by fields of science; (15) Employment in Foreign Affiliates of Domestic Enterprises; (16) Employment in Foreign Controlled Enterprises; (17) Employment rate of non-EU nationals, age group 20-64; (18) Intra-mural Business Enterprise R&D Expenditures in Foreign Controlled Enterprises; (19) Job vacancy rate by NACE Rev. 2 activity - annual data (from 2001 onwards); (20) Job vacancy statistics by NACE Rev. 2 activity, occupation and NUTS 2 regions - quarterly data; (21) Job vacancy statistics by NACE Rev. 2 activity - quarterly data (from 2001 onwards); (22) Value Added in Foreign Controlled Enterprises; (23) Graduates at doctoral level by sex and age groups - per 1000 of population aged 25-34; (24) Graduates at doctoral level, in science, math., computing, engineering, manufacturing, construction, by sex - per 1000 of population aged 25-34; (25) Level of the best-known foreign language (self-reported) by degree of urbanisation; (26) Level of the best-known foreign language (self-reported) by educational attainment level; (27) Level of the best-known foreign language (self-reported) by labour status; (28) Level of the best-known foreign language (self-reported) by occupation; (29) Number of foreign languages known (self-reported) by educational attainment level; (30) Number of foreign languages known (self-reported) by degree of urbanisation; (31) Number of foreign languages known (self-reported) by labour status; (32) Number of foreign languages known (self-reported) by occupation; (33) Population by educational attainment level, sex, age and country of birth (%); (34) Co-patenting at the EPO according to applicants’/inventors’ country of residence - % in the total of each EU Member State patents; (35) Co-patenting at the EPO: crossing inventors and applicants; (36) Co-patenting at the EPO according to applicants’/inventors’ country of residence - number; (37) EU co-patenting at the EPO according to applicants’/ inventors’ country of residence by international patent classification (IPC) sections - number; (38) EU co-patenting at the EPO according to applicants’/inventors’ country of residence by international patent classification (IPC) sections - % in the total of all EU patents; (39) Domestic ownership of foreign inventions in patent applications to the EPO by priority year; (40) Foreign ownership of domestic inventions in patent applications to the EPO by priority year; and (41) Patent applications to the EPO with foreign co-inventors, by priority year.

EU DK: Number of Motor Vehicles: Newly Registered data was reported at 20,266.000 Unit in Dec 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 21,995.000 Unit for Nov 2017. EU DK: Number of Motor Vehicles: Newly Registered data is updated monthly, averaging 16,259.000 Unit from Jan 1999 (Median) to Dec 2017, with 228 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 28,236.000 Unit in Jun 2017 and a record low of 9,037.000 Unit in Feb 2009. EU DK: Number of Motor Vehicles: Newly Registered data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by European Automobile Manufacturers' Association. The data is categorized under World Trend Plus’s Association: Automobile Sector – Table DK.ACEA: No of Motor Vehicles: Newly Registered.