Economy and finance
In December 2025, compared with November 2025, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume decreased by 0.5% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In November 2025, retail trade volume grew by 0.1% in the euro a...
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In December 2025, compared with November 2025, industrial producer prices decreased by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.4% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In November 2025, industrial producer prices grew by 0.7% in the euro area ...
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As of 4 February 2026, several methodological changes have taken effect in the HICP. The index is 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 are included in the HIC...
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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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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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Calculated as the adjusted gross disposable income of households (including non-profit institutions serving households) divided by the purchasing power parities (PPP) of the actual individual consumption of households and by the total resident population.
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The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) measures price changes of various consumer goods and services over time (inflation). This dataset is compiled according to the European Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (ECOICOP) ver. 2, available in bas...
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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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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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