Eurostat Population & Social Conditions

Eurostat Population & Social Conditions provides comprehensive statistics on Europe’s population, workforce, health, education, migration, living standards, social inclusion, and quality of life. The dataset combines demographic, economic, social, and behavioural indicators to help organisations understand how populations are changing, how people live and work, and how social outcomes vary across countries and regions.

Drawing from harmonised surveys, administrative sources, censuses, and official statistics, the dataset supports evidence-based decision-making across government, research, workforce planning, healthcare, economic development, social policy, and market analysis.

Covering 17 data domains including:

Population & Demography

Analyse population size, structure, density, fertility, mortality, marriages, divorces, census results, and long-term population projections to understand demographic change across Europe.

Migration & Asylum

Monitor immigration and emigration flows, citizenship acquisition, asylum applications, temporary protection measures, residence permits, migrant integration outcomes, and migration-related policy indicators.

Health

Access data on population health, healthcare expenditure, healthcare resources, health determinants, causes of death, workplace health and safety, occupational diseases, and access to healthcare services.

Disability

Understand the social and economic participation of people with disabilities through indicators covering employment, education, income, health, social protection, digital access, social participation, and quality of life.

Education & Training

Track participation in education and lifelong learning, learning mobility, education personnel, education financing, language skills, and educational attainment outcomes.

Labour Market

Analyse employment, unemployment, job vacancies, labour costs, earnings, working conditions, gender pay gaps, workforce participation, and labour market transitions.

Income & Living Conditions

Measure household income, poverty, social exclusion, housing conditions, living standards, and broader indicators of economic wellbeing using the EU-SILC framework.

Social Protection

Monitor social protection expenditure, social benefits, pensions, unemployment support, disability support, and other welfare programs across Europe.

Household Budget Surveys

Explore household expenditure patterns, consumption behaviours, spending by income group, household composition, urbanisation level, and socio-economic characteristics.

Children & Youth

Understand the experiences of children and young people through indicators covering demographics, family structures, social inclusion, health, disability, education, migration, employment, entrepreneurship, digital skills, civic participation, and violence against children.

Culture

Explore cultural employment, cultural industries, international trade in cultural goods and services, cultural participation, cultural education, and public and private expenditure on culture.

Sport

Analyse participation in sport and physical activity, attendance at sporting events, employment in sport-related industries, sporting goods trade, household spending on sport, and public investment in recreation and sport.

Crime & Criminal Justice

Access statistics on police-recorded crime, criminal justice outcomes, courts, prisons, trafficking, migrant smuggling, homicide, sexual offences, and public safety indicators.

Gender-Based Violence

Understand the prevalence and impacts of violence against women and interpersonal violence, including intimate partner violence, workplace harassment, stalking, violence experienced during childhood, and awareness of support services.

Quality of Life

Measure wellbeing across material living conditions, health, education, employment, safety, governance, environment, social interactions, leisure, and overall life satisfaction.

Equality & Non-Discrimination

Assess disparities across demographic and socio-economic groups through indicators covering education, employment, income, health, access to services, discrimination, safety, civic participation, and inclusion.

Skills

Analyse skills supply, demand, utilisation, development, and mismatch across the workforce to understand labour market needs and workforce capabilities.

Harmonised European Time Use Surveys (HETUS)

Examine how people allocate time across paid work, unpaid care, household activities, leisure, travel, social participation, and digital activities to understand lifestyle patterns and work-life balance.

Coverage

The dataset provides extensive coverage across the European Union, with many collections also including EFTA countries, candidate countries, and selected neighbouring European nations where available.

Data is available at multiple geographic levels, including European Union aggregates, national and regional geographies, with selected population and census datasets available at local administrative levels and harmonised 1km² grid resolution.

Coverage spans long-term historical series, annual and quarterly indicators, and forward-looking population projections extending more than 50 years into the future.