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Jobs and wealth in the European Union Bioeconomy

Explore socio-economic data and indicators for the bioeconomy sectors in the EU and the Member States through an interactive dashboard.

Bioeconomy

This visualisation presents estimates of jobs, turnover and value added created in the different bioeconomy sectors of activity and in the Member States of the European Union during the time period 2008 - 2022.

References:
Lasarte López, Jesús; Tamošiunas, Saulius; Ronzon, Tévécia; Piotrowski, Stephan; M'barek, Robert; Carus, Michael (2022): Jobs and wealth in the EU bioeconomy / JRC - Bioeconomics. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/7d7d5481-2d02-4b36-8e79-697b04fa4278
 
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European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Rodríguez-Cerezo, E., Gómez-Barbero, M., Cristobal, J., et al., Bioeconomy report 2016, Klinkenberg, M.(editor), Sanchez Lopez, J.(editor), Belward, A.(editor), Camia, A.(editor), Publications Office, 2017, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/379319
 
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Timeseries:
2008-2022
Coverage:
EU
Source:
Data portal of agro-economics research - DataM