The present publication presents time series which end before the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union on 1 February 2020. The EU aggregate presented here therefore refers to the EU including the UK. In future publications, as soon as the series presented for the EU extend for the first time to periods beyond the UK withdrawal (i.e. end of April 2020 for the reference quarter Q1-2020), the “European Union” aggregate will change to reflect the new EU country composition. Interested readers may refer to the Eurostat website for further information on Eurostat’s plans for disseminating EU aggregates and to the Eurostat database for the actual series.

Please refer to the dataset QNA-Archive of data before 2019 benchmark revisions to access longer time series based on the previous methodology.