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Defence expenditure amounted to 1.3% of GDP for the EU-28 and 1.2% of GDP for the 19 countries of the euro area in 2014, according to new data from the European Union's statistical office (Eurostat)

According to Eurostat data, there were just over 5 million new births registered in the EU in 2014, with France recording the highest fertility rate. The data indicated the average age a woman has her first child is 29 years old. Greece had 92,000 new births in 2014, with Greek women bearing their first child at 30 years old.

Members of the three statistical agencies of Bosnia, the state agency and those of the two entities, have been unable to agree on the methodology to elaborate the results of the coungtry's first post-war census, raising fears that publication might not be possible by the July 1 legal deadline.

Pieter Everaers, a representative from Eurostat, the European agency for statistics, on Thursday met the three main statistical agencies of Bosnia - the Statistical Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the institute for statistics of Republika Srpska and the institute for statistics of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bulgaria ranked lowest in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)  per capita among the 28 member states of the European Union last year, according to the latest statistical data published by Eurostat.

In 2014, GDP per capita expressed in Purchasing Power Standards (PPS) ranged between 47% of the EU average in Bulgaria and 266% in Luxembourg - a ratio of nearly one-to-six.

In October 2015 compared with September 2015, the seasonally adjusted volume of retail trade decreased by 0.1% in the euro area (EA19) and remained stable in the EU28, according to estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In September retail trade fell by 0.1% and rose by 0.3% respectively.

Romania are the countries where EU member states where children are at greatest risk of poverty and social exclusion, the European Parliament (EP) states in a press release.

More than one in four children in Europe are at risk of poverty and social exclusion, according to the latest research of the bloc's statistics body, Eurostat, carried out among all 28 EU member states.

Bulgaria is unlikely to be subject to an excessive deficit procedure for 2014, despite latest statistical data showing its budget deficit for that year was twice the maximum value prescribed by the EU.

Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania and Latvia topped the list of number of amenable deaths in 2012, the EU's statistical body Eurostat has said.

According to the agency's latest publication, France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands are the EU members which the lowest amenable mortality rates.

Veteran International Monetary Fund statistician Andreas Georgiou was appointed head of Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) in 2010 in an effort to restore credibility to Greek statistics after the debt crisis erupted. On Sunday, he stepped down, informing Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos of his decision not to accept the extension of his term effective on that day.