Here you’ll find graphs, charts, tables and maps with statistics on external trade, security and defence, and development.
Here you’ll find graphs, charts, tables and maps with statistics on external trade, security and defence, and development.
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Graphics on External relations of the Union
Global exports of basic commodities: Russia’s and Ukraine’s shares (2021)
Main EU and US export controls on trade with Russia since the invasion of Ukraine
Number of Schengen visas issued at consulates in Russia in 2021
Number of Schengen visas issued at consulates in 2020-2021
EU import dependency on cereal
Air passenger traffic in Europe
EU dependency on Russia in gross available energy
Change in cost of food basket
EU import dependency on Russia
Exports of wheat by Russia and Ukraine
Top 5 products exported by Russia worldwide
Harmonised index of consumer prices, (HICP) in percentage points
Annual capacity in billion m3 per year
Figure 1: Weapons and military aid pledged and/or delivered bilaterally by EU Member States
EU sanctions in 2022
EU sanctions in 2022
Representation by state
House and senate – History
House and senate
House and senate – Age
House and senate – New members
Women in the US Congress
Women in the US Congress and European Parliament
Ethnic origin of Members of Congress
Religious affiliation of Members of Congress
Cost of the House of Representatives
Voting methods for Congress
The work of the 116th Congress
Staff levels in the US Congress
Composition of Joint Committees
Composition of Senate committees
Composition of the US Congress
Elections to the US congress
History of party balance
Composition of House committees
House leadership
party balance
Senate leadership
Trends in turnout in US Congressional and EP elections
US Congressional agencies
G20 countries: Total GDP, GDP per capita and population in 2020
G20 and G7 member states
Total trade in goods and services between the EU, US and China (in € bn)
EU-US goods trade value (€ bn)
Importance of transatlantic economy on global stage: Selected indicators
EU-US cooperation for renewed multilateral engagement
Health infrastructure in the US and EU
Common areas of transatlantic interest in security and defence
Important links and actors in the digital world
People who feel that using violence for political goals is justifiable, US 2017 2020
Rule of law index in the USA and EU
Historical and projected total GHG emissions according to NDCs
EU, US and Chinese CO2 emissions: Production v consumption
Costs of extreme weather events
Trade in goods and services between the EU and the UK
Institutional framework
Timeline of the negotiations
Who can vote in primaries
and caucuses?
Map – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh
Outline of the EU Sahel Action plan 2015-2020
G5 Sahel peace profile
G5 Sahel countries’ fast population growth
UK citizens in the EU and EU citizens in the UK
Northern Ireland external sales and purchases of goods
EU funding for Northern Ireland, 2014-2020: main programmes
Northern Ireland external sales and purchases of goods
Composition of Senate Committees
Composition of House Committees
Senate leadership
House leadership
History of party balance in the US Congress
Staff levels in Congress
The work of the 114th Congress (January 2015 – January 2017)
Voting methods
Trends in turnout in US Congressional and EP elections
Women in Congress
Women in the US Congress and European Parliament
Ethnic origin of Members of Congress
Religious affiliation of Members of Congress
Age of Members of Congress
Party balance in the 116th Congress (January 2019 to January 2021)
Women in external affairs in the European Parliament,
(%) beginning of the 2019-2024 term
Types of trade agreements and the human rights claus
Worst performers in terms of human rights and democracy among the parties to EU trade agreements, 2018
Commission s proposed distribution of budgetary allocations to OCTs
Parliament’s proposed distribution of budgetary allocations to OCTs
Executions per country in 2017
Countries that use electronic voting
Countries that use internet voting
Avenues of redress for undue access and use by US public authorities
Redress mechanisms available to individuals
Pacifique : les États membres du Forum des îles du Pacifique ne sont pas tous membres du groupe ACP
Les membres CARICOM ou CELAC ne sont pas tous membres du groupe ACP
Les États membres de l’Union Africaine ne sont pas tous membres du groupe ACP
Turkey freedom of the press ranking according to Reporters Without Borders. Global rank (180 states)
Vladimir Putin in public opinion
Results of Russian presidential elections
FDI in Russia 2014-2017
Russian economy 2014-2017
Russian public opinion and sanctions
Sanctions timeline 2014-2018
Timeline of events in Venezuela since Nicolás Maduro won the presidency
Youth unemployment rate in the Western Balkans, 2016
Top 10 media groups worldwide (€ billions, 2015)
Spending on culture in selected EU countries, data for more recent available year
Top 10 partners in EU-28 exports and imports of cultural goods, 2015, %
How to spot when news is fake
EU Member States’ contributions to the Madad Fund
Global landscape of online population
The EU’s financial support and public opinion worldwide
Fundamentals first level of preparation and progress
Enlargement state of play
State of play of EPAs with ACP countries (as of October 2016)
Member States’ GNI, contributions to European Development Funds 10 and 11 and to the EU budget (as a % of each total): EU-15 and EU-12/EU-13
ACP Group of States in 2016 (all of them are parties to the Cotonou Agreement, except Cuba)
Ratification of international agreements in Member States
Bicameral Parliaments – the role of the upper chamber
Possibility of referendum on the ratification of international agreements
Regional Parliaments in the Member States
Top 5 EU Member States in personnel contributions to UN missions out of total, collective EU Member States’ contributions (August 2016)
EU-Ukraine relations: key developments
ENI and the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework (€ billion)
European Neighbourhood Policy countries
ENI allocations for bilateral cooperation during the 2014-2017 period (€ million)
Althingi election results, 2007-2013
European Neighbourhood Instrument, 2014 (commitments, in € million)
The regional dimensions of the ENP
The European Neighbourhood
Turkey’s geostrategic environment
Purges in the public sector after the failed July 2016 coup
EU chapters: state of play, 2016
Rule of law indicators, 2004-2014
Regional initiatives
Human rights violations by Russia in cases ruled on by the ECtHR in 2015
Current seats in the State Duma
Parliamentary opposition in Russia
Support for United Russia, Putin
2016 US presidential campaign and election calendar
Types of Political Action Committees (PACs)
Contribution limits for federal elections in 2015-2016
Current remaining presidential candidates, ranked by campaign fundraising and spending, and outside spending in support of or against them
Sanctions timeline, 2014-2016
Russian public opinion and sanctions
Russian economy, 2014-2015
Russian economy, 2014-2015
Food prices (% change in retail price during 2014)
EU agrifood exports to Russia and neighbourgs (year-on-year % change in EU exports, July 2014-June 2015)
Asylum applications per fiscal year
Total refugee admissions per fiscal year
Top 10 refugee countries of origin 2010-2015
Humanitarian response plans 2016 (US$bn)
Humanitarian response (2000-2016)
The EU contribution to building refugee and host community resilience (29 January 2016)
The EU contribution to building refugee and host community resilience (14 January 2016)
Refugees admitted to Canada in 2014
Refugees admitted to Canada, 2014
Graphics on Security and defence
Highest and lowest scoring countries in 2022
European Council’s monitoring of Russia’s actions in and around Ukraine
Russia’s military attack on Ukraine
Foreign direct investment in Russia
(FDI stocks, US$ million)
Russian GDP growth
Russia, external corporate debt
US$ billion
Russian oil, gas production, exports
In tonnes (oil)/cubic metres (gas); 2013 = 100
Russian arms exports
Estimated value: US$ billion
Sanctions timeline
Sanctions and Russian public opinion, 2014-2021
Events timeline
Conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas: Combatant fatalities by month
Military build-up around Ukraine
Pipeline design capacity vs exports to Europe / Turkey (not including ex-Soviet Union)
Main Russian pipelines to Europe and Turkey
Developments in EU defence under the current Commission
Strategic Compass process and its baskets
Strategic Compass process timeline
Current OSCE field missions
OSCE structure
OSCE participating states and partners for cooperation
African-led peace support operations with ongoing APF/future EPF funding
Military CSDP operations
New START compliance
Arms control, total warhead numbers, defence expenditure
Arms control, confidence and security building measures timeline
Global warhead stockpiles (2019)
New START Treaty limits
Figure 1 – The pros and cons of QMV in foreign and security policy
PESCO projects, participants and EDIDP funding
Defence disruptions by domain
Threats to peace and security in the current global environment
Normandy Index, 2020
CSDP missions and operations Force generation and contribution against Covid-19
Non-exhaustive mapping of cyber stakeholders
European countries with cyber strategies and representatives
Women in foreign and defence ministerial positions in the EU, 2019
Threats to peace and security in the current global environment
INF timeline
The Western Balkan route
Defence expenditure estimates for 2017 (% GDP)
CSDP missions/operations and the state of peace
Countries targeted by an EU arms embargo
Defence spending in the EU, 2014-2016
EU-28 2017 defence budgets
nuclear weapons worldwide
Who does what in the EU institutions?
Members of EU, NATO and PESCO
Threats to peace and security recognised in strategic documents
Approximate schedule of events
Trends in energy demand
Change in military spending of major global actors in the past decade
Key characteristics of ballistic and cruise missiles
Components of the peace agreement
Phases in the current peace process
Understanding nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles
Instrument contributing to stability and peace indicative financial allocations, MFF 2014-2020
Oil and security
Asylum applications in Serbia in the first half of 2016
Instrument contributing to stability and peace projects, distribution of funds per region
Authorities involved in the asylum procedure
Cutting ISIL-Da’esh’s cash flow
The EU in a contested World
Change in crude oil export revenue (2016projection-2014 annualised)
Capacity building in the EU’s missions and operations
Map of 2014 production of petroleum and other liquids
Graphics on Aid and development
Minimum wages in EU Member States, July 2020 (€ per month)
Minimum wages in EU Member States, July 2020 (PPS per month)
Minimum wages in EU Member States expressed as a percentage of the median gross monthly earnings, 2014 (%)
Numbers of acutely food-insecure people by key driver (2019)
Evolution of global poverty
EU support for human development (2017)
Decline in fertility in Africa
Total population and working age population forecasts: Africa versus the world
Proportion of Africans under the age of 25
A comparison of GDP based on PPP valuation in billion US$, 2014
Agriculture, value added of GDP in % in African countries in 2013
Composition of GDP by sectors in Africa in 2013 (value added to GDP)
Ease of doing businesses, Economy rankings
GDP based on PPP per capita (INT$) in 2015 by African country
GDP growth in % 1961-2011
Gross government debt (% of GDP) by country – IMF estimates for 2015
Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP) in Africa, 1974-2011
Les types de relations de l’Union et de son voisinage
Engagements financiers europeens dans les voisinages Est et Sud depuis 1999
Graphics on Human Rights
