This lookup table provides lists of the NUTS3 regions that are classed by DG REGIO with specific geographic characteristics as follows:
- Mountain regions: NUTS 3 regions having at least 50% of population and/or at least 50% of area in mountain areas;
- Island regions: NUTS 3 regions entirely composed of islands, or being part of islands;
- Sparsely populated regions: NUTS 3 regions having a population density below 12.5 inhabitants/km²;
- RUPS or Outermost territories - specifically recognised in Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

This data story explains the gender equality indices of advantage and disadvantage:

WHAT IS EUSF?
The European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) was set up to respond to major natural disasters and express European solidarity to disaster-stricken regions within Europe. The Fund was created as a reaction to the severe floods in Central Europe in the summer of 2002. Since then, it has been used for disasters covering a range of different catastrophic events including floods, forest fires, earthquakes, storms and drought.

WHAT IS IN THIS DATASET?

The dataset will be updated annually.

For more information: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/solidarity-fund/

This dataset results from DG REGIO calculations based on Eurostat data (demo_r_mwk3_t). It presents excess mortality comparisons of the number of deaths that occurred in 2020 and 2021 with the average number of deaths that occurred in the corresponding weeks of 2015 to 2019. The age structure of the population and the deaths is not taken into account. The figures shown are rolling three week averages centred around the week in question.

Access the EUROSTAT data on their webpage - deaths by week and NUTS region - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_r_mwk3_t/default/table?lang=en - and see the EUROSTAT webpage on national and regional weekly death statistics - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Weekly_death_statistics

Data is not available for Ireland. For Italy no data is available for the last weeks of 2021.

This dataset presents a vertical / narrow view of the longitudinal timeseries data for 2020-2021. This dataset - https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/Other/2020-2021-NUTS-Excess-mortality-3-week-average-hor/kzsy-bycf - provides the same values in a horizontal / wide format.

WHAT IS EUSF?
The European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) was set up to respond to major natural disasters and express European solidarity to disaster-stricken regions within Europe. The Fund was created as a reaction to the severe floods in Central Europe in the summer of 2002. Since then, it has been used for disasters covering a range of different catastrophic events including floods, forest fires, earthquakes, storms and drought.

WHAT IS IN THIS DATASET?

The dataset will be updated annually.

For more information: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/solidarity-fund/

This data story explains the gender equality indices of advantage and disadvantage:

This data story explains the gender equality indices of advantage and disadvantage: