Share of taxes and levies in household electricity price

RecordSTO-01M2KJ7XC4-2G6MK2ANJH-18YFFF

31.2%

European Union · January–June 2008

Share of taxes and levies in household electricity price in the European Union was 31.2% in January–June 2008 (Eurostat).

Original source

Share of taxes and levies in household electricity price: every country and year, and how it is measured

Publisher
Eurostat
Authority tier
T1 Official
Locator
Highest electricity prices in Ireland and Germany
Retrieved
15 Sep 2026
Status
Verified

What the source says

The percentage of taxes in the total price increased by almost 10 percentage points (pp) from 31.2% in the first half of 2008 to 41.0% in the second half of 2019.

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APA

Statistical Office of the European Union. (2008). Electricity price statistics. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFFF

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MLA
Statistical Office of the European Union. "Electricity price statistics." 2008, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFFF.
Chicago
Statistical Office of the European Union. "Electricity price statistics." 2008. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFFF.
BibTeX
@misc{eurostat2008share18yfff, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Electricity price statistics}, year = {2008}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFFF}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity\_price\_statistics. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }

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Record: STO-01M2KJ7XC4-2G6MK2ANJH-18YFFF T1 Official

Primary source

Publisher
Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
Authority tier
Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
Report
Electricity price statistics
Type
Press release
Published
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Locator
Highest electricity prices in Ireland and Germany
Retrieved
15 September 2026
Link status
Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence
See source

Verification

Status
Verified
Review protocol
Editorial review
Checked on
15 September 2026
Last revision
26 September 2026
Permanent URL
/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFFF