Economy and finance
In May 2025, compared with April 2025, industrial producer prices decreased by 0.6% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In April 2025, industrial producer prices fell by 2.2% in the euro area and by 2.1% in th...
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In the first quarter of 2025, house prices, as measured by the House Price Index, increased by 5.4% in the euro area and by 5.7% in the EU compared with the same quarter of the previous year. In the fourth quarter of 2024, house prices increased by 4.1% and 4.9% in the euro area and EU, respectiv...
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In the first quarter of 2025, the EU seasonally adjusted current account of the balance of payments recorded a surplus of €114.0 billion (+2.5% of GDP), compared with a surplus of €88.9 billion (+2.0% of GDP) in the fourth quarter of 2024 and a surplus of €132.3 billion (+3.0% of GDP) in the firs...
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The household saving rate in the euro area was at 15.4% in the first quarter of 2025 (0.2 percentage points higher than in fourth quarter of 2024), which is explained by the consumption increasing at a slower rate than gross disposable income (respectively +0.6% and +0.8%).
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In May 2025, the euro area seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.3%, up from 6.2% in April 2025 and down from 6.4% in May 2024. The EU unemployment rate was 5.9% in May 2025, stable compared with April 2025 and down from 6.0% in May 2024. These figures are published by Eurostat, the statist...
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Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 2.0% in June 2025, up from 1.9% in May according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
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In April 2025, compared with March 2025, seasonally adjusted production in construction increased by 1.7% in the euro area and by 1.4% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In March 2025, production in construction fell by 0.2% in the...
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The euro area annual inflation rate was 1.9% in May 2025, down from 2.2% in April. A year earlier, the rate was 2.6%. European Union annual inflation was 2.2% in May 2025, down from 2.4% in April. A year earlier, the rate was 2.7%. These figures are published by Eurostat, the statistical office o...
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In the first quarter of 2025 the hourly labour costs rose by 3.4% in the euro area and by 4.1% in the EU, compared with the same quarter of the previous year. These figures are published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
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In the first quarter of 2025, the job vacancy rate was 2.4% in the euro area, a decrease from 2.5% in the fourth quarter of 2024 and from 2.9% in the first quarter of 2024, according to the figures published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. The job vacancy rate in the EU...
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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 April 2025, compared with + €13.6 bn in April 2024.
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In the first quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU rose by 5.7%, while rents increased by 3.2% compared with the same quarter of 2024.
Compared with the fourth quarter of 2024, house prices increased by 1.4% and rents by 0.9%.
This information comes from data on house prices and rents publis...
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In 2024, the number of housing transactions increased in 13 out of the 17 EU countries for which data are available, compared with 2023. This marked the first time since 2021 that the majority of reporting countries reported growth in annual sales.
The biggest increases in the number of transac...
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In May 2025, the average price of transport services (services related to the transportation of individuals in various forms, including by railway, road, air, sea and inland waterways) in the EU was 1.7% higher than in May 2024. The prices of passenger transport by railway and road were up by 4....
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Today, Eurostat is publishing for the first time detailed supply, use, and input-output tables for 88 products and industries. These tables will benefit users by giving them greater insights into the structure of EU countries’ economies. They enable a more granular analysis of critical products a...
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In 2024, price levels for household final consumption expenditure differed widely across the EU.
The highest price levels for household consumption were recorded in Denmark (143% of the EU average), Ireland (138%) and Luxembourg (133%). Meanwhile, the lowest levels were registered in Bulgaria (6...
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In 2024, actual individual consumption (AIC) per capita expressed in purchasing power standard (PPS) varied from 72% to 141% of the EU average across the 27 EU countries.
This information comes from recently published data on purchasing power parities (PPPs). This article presents some of the fi...
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In connection with the news releases for the Excessive deficit procedure (EDP) and the Government finance statistics (GFS) published today, a series of related documents have been updated:
Note on the stock of liabilities in trade credits and advances;
Stock-flow adjustment note explaining th...
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In March 2025, the price of eggs in the EU was on average 6.7% higher than in March 2024.
Among the EU countries, the highest increase in annual inflation for eggs was recorded in Czechia (+46.0% in March 2025 compared with March 2024), followed by Slovakia (+29.8%) and Hungary (+26.1%). Meanw...
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As of 1 January 2025, 22 out of 27 EU countries have national minimum wages, making Denmark, Italy, Austria, Finland and Sweden the exceptions.
In January 2025, 10 EU countries had minimum wages below €1 000 per month: Bulgaria (€551), Hungary (€707), Latvia (€740), Romania (€814), Slovakia (€8...
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In March 2025, the UN Statistical Commission endorsed the 2025 System of National Accounts (2025 SNA) and the 7th edition of the Balance of Payments Manual (BPM7) as the new global standards for compiling national accounts and balance of payments statistics.
Eurostat and the national statistic...
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In the fourth quarter of 2024, house prices in the EU rose by 4.9%, while rents increased by 3.2% compared with the fourth quarter of 2023.
Compared with the third quarter of 2024, house prices increased by 0.8% and rents by 0.6%.
This information comes from data on house prices and rents publ...
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Euro-zone series: Until December 1998 it is an aggregate of interbank deposit bid rates weighted by country GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Thereafter the rate is the EONIA (Euro OverNight Index Average), the effective overnight reference rate for the euro, computed as a weighted average of all ove...
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The 3-months interest rate is a representative short-term interest rate series for the domestic money market. From January 1999, the euro area rate is the 3-month "EURo InterBank Offered Rate" (EURIBOR) EURIBOR is the benchmark rate of the large euro money market that has emerged since 1999. It i...
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The labour productivity is the ratio of gross domestic product at current price (nominal) to total hours worked by employees and self-employed (domestic concept). The GDP per hour worked gives an indication of how much economic production activity can be attributed to each hour worked in the e...
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Persons in employment are those who, during the reference week, did any work for pay or profit, or were not working but had a job from which they were temporarily absent. Anyone who receives a wage for on-the-job training that involves the production of goods or services is also considered as bei...
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The nominal unit labour cost (NULC) index is defined as the ratio of labour cost to labour productivity, where labour cost is the ratio of compensation of employees (current prices) to hours worked by employees, and labour productivity is the ratio of gross domestic product (at market prices i...
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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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