A ojo de buen cubero: rule of thumb

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.

Calculation steps

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.

Program
GPT-4

Translation years

en 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

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