Economy and finance
In the third quarter of 2025, household real consumption per capita increased by 0.4% in the euro area, after an increase of 0.4% in the previous quarter. In the same period, household real income per capita increased by 0.1%, after an increase of 0.5% in the second quarter of 2025.
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In the third quarter of 2025, the seasonally adjusted general government deficit to GDP ratio stood at 3.2% in the euro area (EA20) and in the EU. In the third quarter of 2025, the euro area and EU deficit to GDP ratios increased compared to the second quarter of 2025. The euro area deficit to GD...
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At the end of the third quarter of 2025, the general government gross debt to GDP ratio in the euro area (EA20) stood at 88.5%, an increase compared with 88.2% at the end of the second quarter of 2025. In the EU, the ratio also increased from 81.9% to 82.1%.
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In November 2025, compared with October 2025, seasonally adjusted production in construction decreased by 1.1% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In October 2025, production in construction grew by 1.7% in th...
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As of 4 February 2026, several methodological changes will take effect in the HICP. The index will be compiled according to the new European Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose version 2, aligned with the UN COICOP 2018 classification. Games of chance will be included in...
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The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €9.9 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in November 2025, compared with + €15.4 bn in November 2024.
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In November 2025, compared with October 2025, seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 0.7% in the euro area and by 0.2% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In October 2025, industrial production grew by 0.7% in the eu...
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In the third quarter of 2025, the EU seasonally adjusted current account of the balance of payments recorded a surplus of €57.3 billion (+1.2% of GDP), compared with a surplus of €80.5 billion (+1.7% of GDP) in the second quarter of 2025 and a surplus of €96.1 billion (+2.1% of GDP) in the third ...
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The household saving rate in the euro area decreased to 15.1% in the third quarter of 2025 (compared with 15.4% in the second quarter of 2025), which is explained by consumption increasing at a faster rate than gross disposable income (respectively +0.9% and +0.6%).
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In October 2025, compared with September 2025, seasonally adjusted services production increased by 0.3% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In September 2025, services production grew by 0.1% in the euro area...
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In November 2025, compared with October 2025, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume increased by 0.2% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In October 2025, retail trade volume grew by 0.3% in the euro are...
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In 2023, EU exports of spacecraft and space transport services amounted to €2 205 million, while EU imports of these products reached €628 million. These figures are derived from the FIGARO balanced view of international trade.
EU exports of these manufactured products and transport services to ...
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The financial accounts of the general government sector cover transactions in financial assets and liabilities as well as the stock of financial assets and liabilities.
The net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) (also known as surplus/deficit), together with the gross debt of the general government...
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Today, Eurostat released the European Statistical Monitor, a dashboard with short-term indicators covering different areas, such as economy, environment, business, health and work.
This monthly updated dashboard is designed to track developments within the EU as a whole and its members, as well ...
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In the third quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU went up by 5.5%, while rents increased by 3.1%, compared with the third quarter of 2024.
Compared with the second quarter of 2025, house prices increased by 1.6% and rents by 0.9%.
This information comes from data on house prices and rents p...
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This article presents key results from the Global Value Chains survey on international sourcing. International sourcing, often referred to as outsourcing, involves the partial or full relocation of business activities by enterprises to affiliated or non-affiliated partners located abroad. The res...
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Today, Eurostat released the European Statistical Monitor, a dashboard with short-term indicators covering different areas, such as economy, environment, business, health and work.
This monthly updated dashboard is designed to track developments within the EU as a whole and its members, as well ...
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In 2024, the levels of actual individual consumption (AIC) across EU countries varied between 72% and 146% of the EU average, which is set at 100. AIC per capita is expressed in purchasing power standards (PPS) and is used as a measure of material welfare of households.
Last year, 10 countries ...
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In 2024, flows of money sent by EU resident households to non-EU resident households, referred to as personal transfers, amounted to €52.1 billion, an increase of 6% compared with 2023 (€49.2 billion). Inflows of personal transfers to EU resident households totalled €14.8 billion, up by 7% compar...
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Eurostat has launched new experimental statistics presenting multi-country National Accounting Matrices (FIGARO-NAM). This new resource links data on production and consumption with data on income and saving, helping users understand how economic flows move between institutional sectors and how t...
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In 2024, non-financial corporations (businesses whose main economic activity is non-financial) in the EU had a profit share of 40.1%, down by 1.6 percentage points from the previous year. Profit share is the proportion of the value added by a business that remunerates capital (gross operating sur...
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Between 2004 and 2024, household real income per capita in the EU grew by 22%.
Income per capita grew steadily between 2004 and 2008, stagnated between 2008 and 2011 due to the global financial crisis and declined in 2012 and 2013. Since then, income resumed the steady growth until the year 2020...
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The private sector debt is the stock of liabilities held by the sectors Non-Financial corporations, Households and Non-Profit institutions serving households (S.11_S.14_S.15). The instruments that are taken into account to compile private sector debt are Debt securities (F.3) and Loans (F.4). Dat...
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The private sector credit flow represents the net amount of liabilities which the sectors Non-Financial corporations, Households and Non-Profit institutions serving households (S.11_S.14_S.15) have incurred along the year. The instruments that are taken into account to compile private sector cred...
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Private consumption expenditure consists of expenditure incurred for the direct satisfaction of individual or collective needs by private households or non-profit institutions serving households (such as religious societies, sports and other clubs, political parties, etc.).
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Residential Construction tracks the actual construction (not sales) of housing and is part of Gross fixed capital formation. GFCF consists of resident producers' acquisitions, less disposals, of fixed assets during a given period plus certain additions to the value of non-produced assets realised...
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The indicator is calculated as the ratio of real gross domestic product to the average population of a specific year. GDP measures the value of total final output of goods and services produced by an economy within a certain period of time.
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A country’s terms of trade measures a country's export prices in relation to its import prices. The terms of trade are a measure of a country's trade competitiveness since they indicate how much imports an economy can get for a unit of export goods and services. They are calculated as the rati...
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Gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) consists of resident producers' acquisitions, less disposals, of fixed assets during a given period plus certain additions to the value of non-produced assets realised by the productive activity of producer or institutional units. GFCF includes acquisition les...
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Gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices is the final result of the production activity of resident producer units. It is defined as the value of all goods and services produced less the value of any goods or services used in their creation. The ESA 2010 (European System of Accounts) regu...
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Compensation of employees (at current prices) is defined as the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, payable by an employer to an employee in return for work done by the latter during the accounting period. Compensation of employees consists of wages and salaries, and of employers' social cont...
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The indicator is calculated by subtracting the world exports volume growth rate from the country exports volume growth rate. Eurostat's National accounts volumes for exports (as for all transactions concerning goods and services) are estimated in previous year prices to eliminate the influence...
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The trade balance is calculated as the difference between exports and imports of goods classified under SITC section 3, “Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials”, with respect to its corresponding “rest of the world”:
- for the EU aggregate, trade with non-EU countries (e...
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