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EUROPEAN REVIEW

ISSUE 10 - Page 9

Stats and Facts

EUROSTAT 1999 STATISTICS

Eurostat have released figures for population, inflation and agricultural income for 1999. The European Review carried all these stats for 1998. So we present the updated versions

Continuing Fall in Agricultural Income

Contrasting the latest figures for real agricultural income in the EU with those for 1998 (see issue 7) shows that there was a continued general decline. Once again there were considerable differences between countries with Denmark again the biggest loser. The position of the U.K. however has improved markedly with the decrease being less than the EU average.

Country

%change 1999/1998

Country

%change 1999/1998

Portugal

+16

EU average

-3

Sweden

+6

Germany

-3

Luxembourg

+2

Spain

-3

Greece

0

France

-4

Austria

-1

Netherlands

-6

Italy

-2

Belgium

-9

Finland

-2

Denmark

-11

UK

-2

Ireland

-12

1 million more people in EU but births down again

Eurostat has released population statistics for 1999. There are estimated to have been 376.4 million people in the EU on 1st January 2000, an increase of 983,000 during 1999. However live births totalled 4 million, the lowest level since the war (see the article in issue 6), which accounted for only 266,000 of the increase, the rest coming from migration.

Country

Natural Change

Net Migration

Total Increase

Luxembourg

+4.1

+9.3

13.4

Ireland

+5.9

+5.0

10.9

Netherlands

+3.7

+2.7

6.4

France

+3.5

+0.8

4.3

UK

+1.1

+2.9

4.0

Denmark

+1.5

+1.9

3.3

EU 15

+0.7

+1.9

2.6

Finland

+1.8

+0.6

2.4

Belgium

+1.0

+1.0

2.0

Portugal

+0.5

+1.5

2.0

Greece

+0.4

+1.4

1.8

Italy

-0.8

+2.3

1.5

Germany

-0.9

+2.3

1.4

Austria

+0.1

+1.1

1.2

Spain

0.0

+0.9

0.9

Sweden

-0.7

+1.4

0.6

In the table above the first column shows the change in population numbers, due to births and deaths, for the EU as a whole and in each EU country, for 1999 as it would apply to a population of 1,000. The second column shows the same due to the balance of immigration and emigration.

Annual Inflation

Annual price inflation in the 15 member states of the European Union increased to 1.8% in January 2000 (up from 1.7% in December 1999). The figure for January 1999 was 0.9% (see issue 6). The euro-zone countries recorded the slightly higher figure of 2.0%. Individual Member State figures worth noting are Ireland's, the highest at 4.4% and the U.K.'s, the lowest at 0.8%; also the improvement in Greece's position from last year's highest to this year's joint eleventh.

Country
% change Jan 2000 on January 1999
% change Jan 1999 on January 1998

Ireland

4.4

2.1

Luxembourg

3.5

-1.4

Spain

2.9

1.5

Denmark

2.8

1.2

Italy

2.2

1.5

Euro-zone average

2.0

0.8

Finland

2.0

0.5

Germany

1.9

0.2

Portugal

1.9

2.5

Belgium

1.8

1.0

EU Average

1.8

0.9

France

1.7

0.4

Austria

1.6

0.3

Greece

1.6

3.5

Netherlands

1.6

2.1

Sweden

1.0

0.0

UK

0.8

1.6

These figures are measured by a harmonised index of consumer prices

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