77 billions €
Translation costs for all the EU institutions/bodies 1952 - 2025 : 73 years
A rough estimation with an unknown degree of certanty. The approach is to estimate one yearly-lang-cost (90) and multiply by the translation-years (854). The yearly-lang-cost is the same for every year; refinements are needed to differentiate years.
456 M. 2003 cost after adding the direct and grey translation (10.0%) to the base cost (414.19). 41 M. Per language cost in 2003 value. 63 M. Per language cost in 2025 value. Inflation: 53.19%. 90 M. Per language cost for all EU/institutions/bodies. 854 Translation-years from 1952 to 2025. 77 B. Total estimation for all EU institutions/bodies. Euros. M:millions. B:billions.
Programen 1952 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73 translation-years per language de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73 fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73 it ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73 nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73 da 1973 ---------------------------------------------------- 52 el 1981 -------------------------------------------- 44 es 1986 --------------------------------------- 39 pt --------------------------------------- 39 fi 1995 ------------------------------ 30 sv ------------------------------ 30 cs 2004 --------------------- 21 et --------------------- 21 hu --------------------- 21 lt --------------------- 21 lv --------------------- 21 mt --------------------- 21 pl --------------------- 21 sk --------------------- 21 sl --------------------- 21 bg 2007 ------------------ 18 ga ------------------ 18 ro ------------------ 18 hr 2013 ------------ 12 854 total translation-years