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League tables that answer the questions people actually ask, each with its source, year and caveats.
- At what age do young people leave home across Europe?Eurostat estimates the average age at which young people leave the parental household, from the EU Labour Force Survey.
- Which European countries are oldest and youngest?The median age splits the population in two: half are older, half are younger. Population on 1 January.
- Where in Europe do people live longest?Period life expectancy at birth: how long a newborn would live if the death rates of that year stayed the same all their life.
- Where in Europe are households biggest?Mean number of people per private household, from the EU survey on income and living conditions (EU-SILC).
- Which European countries have the most homes online?Share of households with at least one member aged 16-74 that have internet access at home (Eurostat ICT survey).
- Where in Europe do most people own their home?Share of the population (people, not households) living in an owner-occupied home, with or without a mortgage (EU-SILC).
- What share of people are 65 or older in each European country?Share of the population aged 65 and over on 1 January.
- Where in Europe are homes most overcrowded?Eurostat counts a home as overcrowded when it has fewer rooms than a standard set by household size, age and sex (e.g. one room per couple, per single adult, and per pair of same-sex children aged 12-17).
- Where in Europe do people work the longest hours?Mean usual weekly hours in the main job, full-time and part-time together (EU Labour Force Survey).
The most average places. Which town is closest to its country's average on everything at once?
Comparing countries fairly
These tables use Eurostat's harmonised figures, where every country follows the same definitions. That makes them far more comparable than putting national figures side by side. Even so, many are survey estimates, so countries a few tenths apart may not really differ.
Where definitions don't line up (for example, income measured in different ways in different countries), we leave the comparison out rather than mislead.