The organisations in the different countries that cooperate with Eurostat are summarised under the concept of the European Statistical System.

[1] Since the swearing in of the von der Leyen Commission in December 2019, Eurostat is allocated to the portfolio of the European Commissioner for the Economy, Paolo Gentiloni.

European regions by GDP, expressed as a percentage of the EU average The Eurostat statistical work is structured into Themes and Sub-themes.

[12][13] The name changed from EU27_2019 to EU27_2020 due to a British constitutional delay which resulted in Brexit being delivered in 2020 rather than the initially planned 2019.

The concept of the EU 28 has been used since 1 January 2014, also according to the Eurostat methodological manual on city statistics, 2017 edition.

Since September 2009 Eurostat has pioneered a fully electronical way of publishing, Statistics Explained,[16] like Wikipedia based on Mediawiki open source software and with a largely similar structure and navigation.

Statistics Explained is not only a dissemination format, however, but also a wiki working platform for producing flagship publications like the Eurostat Yearbook.