ESA Space Economy – Partnering with Eurostat and the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) to produce official statistics on the European space sector

ESA Space Economy – Partnering with Eurostat and the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) to produce official statistics on the European space sector [Jul/2024]

In March 2022, ESA launched a cooperation project with Eurostat, to investigate the development of a European space economy thematic account. In July 2022, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) joined the project team. This tripartite cooperation is the first of its kind at the European level. The project is receiving strong and continuous support from all ESA and EU Member States, as well as from the OECD (see OECD Partnership page) and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

The cooperation project consists of three initial work packages, forming a pragmatic, stepped approach with concrete deliverables at completion of each work package.:

- A first work package refers to the definition of the space economy for statistical purposes (work package led by ESA);

- A second consists in the development of the methodology for the construction of the European space economy thematic account at the national and aggregated European level, following guidelines from the United Nations (work package led by Eurostat and JRC);

- A third work package is combining the results obtained from the first two work packages, while testing their applicability and fine-tuning them. This work is still on-going at the time of the publication.

The cooperation has led to the successful publication in December 2023, of two first ever reports on the topic of space economy thematic account:

-  Developing a space economy thematic account for Europe jointly written by ESA, Eurostat and the JRC.

-  International, North American and European Statistical Classifications for Space Economy Measurement jointly written by the OECD, the US BEA, ESA, Eurostat and the JRC.

Both reports were released at a unique launch event hosted by the OECD on 15 December 2023.

A first set of experimental statistics was published by Eurostat in December 2023 as well, presenting the level of European exports of complete satellite systems across a decade (2010 to 2021). A briefing note on A decade of European space exports was jointly released by Eurostat, JRC, ESA and with the support of Eurospace in February 2024.

ESA Space Economy team cooperation with Eurostat and JRC is on-going, with several European countries now making use of the published material to develop space economy statistics at national level.

To know more about the work of ESA Space Economy team partnership with Eurostat and JRC, please do not hesitate to contact us!


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