The Yearbook provides an overview of the significant features of every country in Europe and the European Union, including people, land, environment, national income and expenditure, enterprises, and activities. Data are presented both in tables and color charts for ease of use. You will find demographic, government, and economic statistics in this volume, along with a wide variety of other data. Some of these topics include forestry and fisheries, crime, pollution, agriculture, and housing. Data in this volume allow users to make comparisons among the European Market, the United States, Canada, and Japan. A glossary, classification of economic activities, list of authors by data series, and bibliographic data are also included in this volume.

Clear, informative and far-reaching, the Eurostat yearbook 2003 serves as a practical statistical guide to the major issues relating to the evolution of the European Union. What the Eurostat yearbook contains : - 330 pages in paper and PDF format and about 1 000 tables on CD-ROM of clear tables and graphs of statistical data, with explanatory texts - Data showing the development of the European Union's society, economy, ecology and entrepreneurial activity over the period 1991-2001, for the individual Member States, euro-zone countries and EU as a whole - Comparable data for the 13 EU candidate countries and major non-European nations.

This publication contains a wide range of comparable data covering the years 1992 to 2002 for the European Union as a whole, individual EU Member States and euro-zone countries. Topics covered include social statistics relating to populatin, health, education, the labour market, household and welfare issues; the economy including national accounts, balance of payments and international trade; the environment, including water resources and supply, waste treatment, air pollution and climate change; science and technology issues such as research and development, and the growth of the information society; business sectors and enterprises, including industry and construction, tourism, transport and energy; agriculture, forestry and fisheries. An accompanying CD-ROM contains more than 1,000 statistical tables and graphs, which can be easily extracted for use in spreadsheet applications. This edition of the yearbook also contains two chapters on the position of the EU in a global context, and sustainable development issues.