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What Each European Country Does

LBest According to Eurostat

Luxembourg-based Eurostat is the statistical
Austria: Lowest unemployment—During the past year,
Austria had the lowest unemployment rate at an average
ofice of the European Union, tasked with
of 4.9%.
providing the EU with data at the broad

European level to enable comparisons Belgium: Most recycling—Belgians ranked best at recycling

between all 28 member countries and various packaged waste.
sub-regions. As a result, Eurostat offers an
Bulgaria: Cheapest electricity—Bulgarians pay the
amazingly wide range of important and
lowest cost for electricity when ranked among all 28 EU
interesting data that governments, businesses,
members.
education and the public sector can use for
Croatia: Quietest Housing—Croatians get the most
their work and daily life. Recently, Yahoo
peace and quiet, with only 10% reporting they suffer
Travel’s Thrillist sifted through the latest
from hearing noise at home.
annual data and came up with fun fact on what

each European country does best. We thought Cyprus: Best at Handling Money—Seventy-eight percent
of Cypriots said they have no problem distinguishing
they’d also be of interest to marketers.
and handling euro coins, and 91% said they could

distinguish and handle euro notes

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