Portrait of EU coastal regions

European Commission Eurostat

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Agriculture and fisheries
Demography and population
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

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• Economic statistics
• Population statistics
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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
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• Langue: English

Extrait

Agriculture and fisheries Author: Isabelle COLLET

S t a t i s t i c s i n f o c u s 38/2010

Portrait of EU coastal regions In 2007, 196 million people lived, 88 million people worked and 410 million people embarked or disembarked in EU coastalregions In 2007 43 % of the inhabitants of the 22 EU An anal sis of these characteristics enabled five 1 2 Member States lived in coastal re ions and 38 % main rofiles to be drawn of these highly specific of coastal re ion inhabitants resided in one of the regions. 194 cities with over 100 000 inhabitants located The data contained in this ublication can be within 50 km of the sea. used for the monitorin of coastal re ions The service sector is the bi est em lo er, rofiles in the framework of the EU integrated 3 accountin for 72 % of the obs in these re ions. Maritime Policy . However involvement in the service sector is not homo eneous all over the re ions. Hi h densit of 1 Excluding Northern Ireland and Scotland, data not available; tourism ca acit or lar e marine assen er traffic 2 EU coastal regions: regions with a sea border, regions with more than is linked with the level of em lo ment in sectors half of its population within 50 km of the sea and Hamburg; such as households and enter rise services. 3 On 10 October 2007 the Commission presented its vision for an Administrative and financial services, for their Integrated Maritime Policy for the European Union (Blue Book – art, are most often related to the level of COM (2007) 575); urbanisation of these regions.

Figure 1: Share of population living within 50 km from the coastline, NUTS 3, 200 1

Source: Eurostat GISCO database .