aid: eurostat
name: Eurostat
description: Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union, providing free and open REST APIs for programmatic access to European statistical data covering demographics, economy, trade, agriculture, transport, environment, and dozens of other indicators across EU member states and regions.
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/eurostat/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
  - Statistics
  - European Union
  - Open Data
  - Demographics
  - Economy
  - Trade
  - Agriculture
  - Transport
  - Environment
  - SDMX
apis:
  - name: Eurostat Statistics API
    description: The primary REST API for accessing Eurostat datasets in JSON-stat 2.0 format. Supports filtering by geography, time period, and any dataset dimension. Returns synchronous or asynchronous responses depending on query size.
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    humanURL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-introduction
    baseURL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/
    tags:
      - Statistics
      - JSON-stat
      - European Union
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-introduction
      - type: GettingStarted
        url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-getting-started/api
      - type: DetailedGuidelines
        url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-detailed-guidelines/api-statistics
  - name: Eurostat SDMX 2.1 API
    description: SDMX 2.1-compliant web service providing access to Eurostat datasets and structural metadata in SDMX-ML (XML), SDMX-CSV, and TSV formats.
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    humanURL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-introduction
    baseURL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/sdmx/2.1/
    tags:
      - SDMX
      - XML
      - Statistics
      - European Union
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-introduction
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/eurostat-sdmx-rest-openapi.yaml
  - name: Eurostat SDMX 3.0 API
    description: SDMX 3.0-compliant web service providing access to Eurostat datasets, dataflows, data structure definitions, and codelists. Supports SDMX-ML 3.0 and 2.1, SDMX-CSV 2.0 and 1.0, TSV, and JSON-stat formats.
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    humanURL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-getting-started/sdmx3.0
    baseURL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/sdmx/3.0/
    tags:
      - SDMX
      - XML
      - CSV
      - Statistics
      - European Union
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-getting-started/sdmx3.0
      - type: DetailedGuidelines
        url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-detailed-guidelines/sdmx3-0/data-query
  - name: Eurostat Asynchronous API
    description: Asynchronous dissemination API for large dataset extractions between 500,000 and 5,000,000 cells. Clients submit a request, receive a unique key, poll for status, and download results when available.
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    humanURL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-detailed-guidelines/asynchronous-api
    baseURL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/1.0/async/
    tags:
      - Asynchronous
      - Large Datasets
      - Statistics
      - European Union
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-detailed-guidelines/asynchronous-api
  - name: Eurostat Catalogue API
    description: API for discovering all publicly available Eurostat datasets, browsing the navigation tree, and retrieving dataset metadata before querying.
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    humanURL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-introduction
    baseURL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/catalogue/
    tags:
      - Catalogue
      - Metadata
      - Discovery
      - European Union
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-introduction
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-introduction
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/eurostat
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eurostat/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/news/news-articles
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-introduction
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/help/maintenance-information
  - type: X
    url: https://x.com/EU_Eurostat
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/eurostat-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/eurostat-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/eurostat-finops.yml
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-faq
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com