Eurostat Publish Statistical Yearbook 2006

In which region of the EU is the population increasing and where is it decreasing? Where can you find the highest labour productivity? Which regions have the highest employment rates for the age group 55-64? Answers to these questions and to many more can be found in the Statistical Yearbook of the EU Regions 2006 published by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities.

The publication presents data which cover the 254 regions of the 25 EU Member States, defined by level 2 of the Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2003). The publication also covers the 14 regions of Bulgaria and Romania. The publication contains chapters on population, GDP, household accounts, labour market, labour productivity, urban statistics, science, technology and innovation, business, health, transport and agriculture. New this year is the chapter on labour productivity. In the other chapters, efforts have been made to focus on aspects not recently covered.

The regional data is shown in the form of maps and graphs, commented by texts. A CD-ROM contains the data series used to draw the maps, the PDF versions of each of the three language editions of the yearbook and documentation on the NUTS 2003 nomenclature.