Economy and finance
In December 2025, the euro area seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.2%, down from 6.3% in November 2025 as well as in December 2024. The EU unemployment rate was 5.9% in December 2025, stable compared with November 2025 and with December 2024. These figures are published by Eurostat, the ...
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In the fourth quarter of 2025, seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 0.3% in both the euro area and the EU, compared with the previous quarter, according to a preliminary flash estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the third quarter of 2025, GDP had incre...
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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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The most common form of contingent liabilities in the EU countries is government guarantees on liabilities and, occasionally, on assets of third parties.
In 2024, the highest levels of government guarantees were recorded in the Netherlands (31.0% of GDP), Finland (17.0%) and Italy (14.6%). On th...
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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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The households sector debt is the stock of liabilities held by the sectors Households and Non-Profit institutions serving households (S.14_S.15). The instruments taken into account to compile the household sector debt are Debt securities (F.3) and Loans (F.4). Data are presented in consolidated t...
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The non-financial corporations debt excluding foreign direct investment indicator represents the net amount of liabilities in which the sector non-financial corporations (S.11) have incurred along the year, minus foreign direct investments (FDI). The instruments that are taken into account to ...
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The non-financial corporations debt is the stock of debt of the sector non-financial corporations (S11). It is expressed as percentage of GDP. The instruments taken into account to compile this indicator are Debt securities (F.3) and Loans (F.4). Data are presented in consolidated terms (meaning ...
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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 households sector credit flow represents the net amount of liabilities which the sectors Households and Non-Profit institutions serving households (S.14_S.15) have incurred during the year. The instruments taken into account to compile this indicator are Debt securities (F.3) and Loans (F.4)....
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The non-financial corporations credit flow excluding foreign direct investment indicator measures the net amount of liabilities incurred during the year by the non-financial corporations sector (S.11), excluding foreign direct investment (FDI).The compilation covers the instruments debt securi...
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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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The annual building permits data are business cycle indicators providing information on the development of granted building permits in one year. Builders apply for building permits and local building administrations issue them normally before the beginning of the construction work. Therefore b...
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The Euro-national currency exchange rate represents the equivalent of one euro expressed in national currency. For example, the euro-dollar exchange rate is the equivalent of one euro expressed in United States dollars. Monthly data are the average of the observed business day rates. Data are pre...
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