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Statistics on European Neighbourhood Policy Countries: East 2018 edition STATISTICAL BOOKS Statistics on European Neighbourhood Policy Countries: East 2018 edition Printed by Imprimerie Centrale in Luxembourg Manuscript completed in February 2018 Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use that might be made of the following information. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2018 © European Union, 2018 Reuse is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of European Commission documents is regulated by Decision 2011/833/EU (OJ L 330, 14.12.2011, p. 39). 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For more information, please consult: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about/policies/copyright Print: ISBN 978-92-79-80906-4 PDF: ISBN 978-92-79-80907-1 doi:10.2785/975951 doi:10.2785/561565 Cat. No: KS-02-18-351-EN-C Cat. No: KS-02-18-351-EN-N Abstract Statistics on European Neighbourhood Policy Countries: East — 2018 edition The 2018 edition of Statistics on European Neighbourhood Policy Countries: East presents up-to-date series of key statistical data for six partners — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine — also known as the ENP-East countries, as well as data for the EU-28. The tables, figures, associated commentary and methodological notes concern key social, economic and environmental themes for which data are collected annually by Eurostat from the ENP-East countries through a series of harmonised questionnaires. All tables and figures in the publication are followed by data codes, which link directly to tables within Eurostat’s free dissemination database (Eurobase): the data codes generally contain the data for the EU-28 and in most cases also contain data for the individual EU Member States, EFTA countries, enlargement countries and in a few cases also ENP-East countries. Director of Directorate A Pieter Everaers Head of Unit A3 Ceri Thompson (acting) Editorial team Steinn Steinsson and Torbiörn Carlquist Contact details Eurostat Unit A3 Statistical Office of the European Union Joseph Bech Building 5, rue Alphonse Weicker 2721 Luxembourg E-mail: [email protected] Production and desktop publishing INFORMA s.à r.l. Giovanni Albertone, Simon Allen, Andrew Redpath Data extracted January 2018 Statistics on European Neighbourhood Policy countries: East — 2018 edition 3 Acknowledgements Acknowledgements This publication would not have been possible without the cooperation and goodwill of a large number of people working in the national statistical authorities (statistical offices, central banks, finance and other ministries) of the ENP-East countries. Armenia National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia www.armstat.am Azerbaijan The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan www.stat.gov.az Belarus National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus www.belstat.gov.by Georgia National Statistics Office of Georgia www.geostat.ge Moldova National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova www.statistica.md Ukraine State Statistics Service of Ukraine ukrstat.org 4 Statistics on European Neighbourhood Policy countries: East — 2018 edition Contents Contents Acknowledgements 4 Contents 5 Introduction 7 1. Population 15 2. Living conditions 25 3. Health 31 4. Education 37 5. Labour market 43 6. Economy and finance 55 7. International trade in goods 67 8. Agriculture and fishing 75 9. Industry and services 83 10. Science and technology 93 11. Transport 101 12. Energy 111 13. Environment 119 Statistics on European Neighbourhood Policy countries: East — 2018 edition 5 Introduction Introduction Introduction Policy background The current policy aims to build more effective partnerships between the EU and its neighbours The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) — towards a more stable EU Neighbourhood, in established in 2004 — reflects the European political, socio-economic and security terms. Union’s (EU) wish to build on common interests Strengthening the state and societal resilience with partner countries and commitment to of the EU’s partners is a key priority in the face work jointly in key priority areas, including in the of threats and pressures they are experiencing, promotion of democracy, rule of law, respect for including the challenges associated with human rights, and social cohesion. Through the migration and mobility. The key principles of ENP, the EU offers partner countries potential the revised ENP are differentiation amongst greater access to the EU’s market and regulatory partner countries, flexibility (in order to accelerate framework, standards and internal agencies and assistance and to ensure it is better adapted to programmes. rapidly changing political circumstances and The ENP is a key part of the EU’s foreign policy. priorities), joint ownership, greater involvement of The ENP partner countries form two groups, the EU Member States, and shared responsibility. those to the east of the EU referred to as the The 2015 review built on the relaunch of the ENP-East countries and those to the south of the ENP which took place in May 2011, when, partly EU referred to as the ENP-South countries. The in response to the ‘Arab Spring’, the European ENP-East grouping brings together the countries Commission and the European External Action of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Service launched a new and ambitious ENP, Moldova and Ukraine in the Eastern Partnership. confirming the EU’s determined and reinforced Action plans setting out an agenda for political engagement with its neighbours to the east and and economic reforms with short and medium- to the south. term priorities have been developed with all of Of the six ENP-East countries, three — Georgia, the countries, except Belarus. They reflect the Moldova and Ukraine — have signed Association state of each country’s progress in terms of its Agreements and the Deep and Comprehensive relations with the EU. Free Trade Agreements with the EU. In The ENP was most recently revised in November February 2017, the EU and Armenia completed 2015, when a profound review of the ENP negotiations for a Comprehensive and Enhanced took place, recognising the different level of Partnership Agreement. During the same year, involvement sought in the bilateral relations by the EU and Azerbaijan launched negotiations for the EU’s partners and following extensive public a new comprehensive agreement. consultations with all the main stakeholders. For more information about the ENP, see: http://eeas.europa.eu/topics/european- neighbourhood-policy-enp_en The action plans are available at: http://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters- homepage/8398/enp-action-plans_en The latest progress reports are available at: http://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/ headquarters-homepage/8409/enp-progress-reports_en 8 Statistics on European Neighbourhood Policy countries: East — 2018 edition Introduction The EU supports the achievement of the Statistical cooperation with the ENP-East objectives of the actions plans and association countries agreements through: financial support; In the light of the revitalised ENP strategy, economic integration and access to EU markets; the importance of official statistics has been easier travel to the EU; and technical and policy reinforced and the need for international support. Once a year, the European Commission cooperation in statistics renewed; statistics and the High Representative of the European need to capture the situation in a country Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in both static and dynamic forms, helping publish reports assessing the progress made policymakers identify needs, formulate towards the objectives of the action plans. objectives and orientate policies; statistics need to enable progress towards agreed goals to be Statistical cooperation monitored and measured — a key component Among the EU Member States, statistics are of governance. Statistics are also needed to coordinated by Eurostat, the statistical office of inform and support the dialogue and exchanges the EU, through the European Statistical System between the EU and its partners in eastern (ESS). The European statistical system is based Europe, within the framework of the ENP. on the harmonisation of statistical concepts, To meet this need, the EU and the ENP-East methodologies, definitions and methods which countries have been working together for a enable the collection of reliable, robust and number of years to strengthen statistical systems comparable statistics among EU Member States, in the region. European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and In 2014, a new strategy for statistical cooperation enlargement countries. in the ENP-East