What the "European Union" figure means

The EU value is an official aggregate for the 27 member states, not an average of country figures.

Values shown for the European Union are calculated by the source, usually Eurostat, for the current 27 member states (the composition since February 2020), including for years before some countries joined.

They are weighted by population, households or economic size as the measure requires. They are not a simple average of the country values on the page, which would give Malta the same weight as Germany.

This site never calculates its own averages of countries. When a source publishes no aggregate for a measure, no EU figure is shown.

Measures on this site

• Unemployment rate, ages 15 to 74 (Eurostat)
• Share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption (Eurostat)
• Households with internet access (Eurostat)