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Signs

The following signs are used in figures and tables:

– : nil or negligible

. : decimal point

Country aggregates

OECD Europe: This zone includes all European member countries of the OECD, i.e. Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

OECD: This zone includes all member countries of the OECD, i.e. the countries of OECD Europe plus Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Israel*, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand and the United States. Costa Rica became an OECD member on 25 May 2021 and is not included in the figures and zone aggregates of this review.

This publication presents European Union (EU) data that predate the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union on 1 February 2020. Therefore, the EU aggregate presented here refers to the European Union including the United Kingdom, unless otherwise stated.

Country aggregates may include Secretariat estimates.

Currency

Monetary unit: Euro (EUR)

In 2020, USD 1 = EUR 0.876

In 2019, USD 1 = EUR 0.893

Cut-off date

This report is based on information and data available up to 1 May 2021.

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