Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Translation in Figures 2020
Translation in Figures 2020
2,000 30%
68% 32%
Where we work:
1% locally in EU member countries.
46% 53%
of us work in Brussels in Luxembourg
What we translate:
Others
49% 1%
EU law-making 8%
Communication with
EU institutions,
national parliaments
10%
Other 21%
official External
documents 9% communication,
Incoming web content
correspondence*
2%
* Every EU citizen can write to the Consulting
EU institutions in one of the the public
official languages and receive an on EU policy
answer in the same language.
We translate
approx. 2 million pages
a year
In-house: Outsourced:
68% 32%
Translation costs
1981
English Portuguese
Greek
1958
1995
Danish Spanish Finnish
Dutch
French Swedish
Romanian
Slovak
Croatian
Irish Polish
2013
2007 Maltese
Bulgarian
Lithuanian
2004
Estonian Czech Hungarian Latvian
We translate all official EU languages
Pages from Pages into
1,689,756 English 185,613
73,134 French 140,384
29,201 German 104,757
23,448 Italian 84,389
22,358 Spanish 83,832
17,469 Romanian 76,726
13,703 Polish 77,881
12,372 Hungarian 75,587
11,968 Bulgarian 76,240
11,125 Greek 76,960
9,810 Portuguese 77,591
7,911 Dutch 82,492
6,523 Czech 75,444
6,475 Croatian 74,877
5,913 Slovak 74,341
5,547 Slovenian 74,113
4,694 Danish 73,492
4,614 Swedish 75,327
4,489 Finnish 73,911
4,478 Lithuanian 74,558
4,464 Latvian 73,409
4,124 Estonian 73,425
2,727 Others 6,573
661 Maltese 73,192
0 Irish 11,849
TOTAL 1,976,964
Print: HC-03-20-209-EN-C ¦ ISBN 978-92-76-17573-5 ¦ doi:10.2782/359611
PDF: HC-03-20-209-EN-N ¦ ISBN 978-92-76-17574-2 ¦ doi:10.2782/019253
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