Europe

46 countries in World Bank data. The continent figure is the median of its countries - the World Bank does not publish continental totals, and its own regions do not match continents.

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Europe in detail: regions (NUTS), EU-specific indicators and the EU average from Eurostat - open the Eurostat section. Eurostat uses its own methods (euro instead of dollars, survey-based unemployment), so its numbers differ slightly from the world data here.

Countries

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Albania	2.3 mn	12,998	79.8	1.34	10.9	1.79
Andorra	82,904	54,292	84.2	1.09	-	-
Austria	9.2 mn	62,930	82.0	1.31	5.6	6.32
Belarus	9.1 mn	10,279	74.4	1.22	3.4	5.94
Belgium	11.9 mn	60,750	82.3	1.44	5.9	7.31
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.1 mn	10,382	78.0	1.49	11.0	6.45
Bulgaria	6.4 mn	20,328	75.8	1.72	3.5	5.31
Croatia	3.9 mn	27,104	78.9	1.46	5.0	4.83
Czechia	10.9 mn	35,917	80.0	1.36	2.8	7.13
Denmark	6 mn	76,970	82.3	1.47	5.5	4.28
Estonia	1.4 mn	34,418	79.3	1.18	8.3	7.76
Faroe Islands	54,900	74,175	83.1	1.91	-	0.04
Finland	5.6 mn	56,149	82.3	1.25	9.5	5.54
France	68.7 mn	48,986	83.0	1.61	7.5	4.00
Germany	83.5 mn	60,496	80.8	1.36	3.7	6.94
Greece	10.4 mn	26,948	81.8	1.24	8.5	5.05
Hungary	9.5 mn	25,907	76.7	1.41	4.5	4.46
Iceland	392,404	98,323	82.8	1.56	3.6	8.52
Ireland	5.5 mn	131,592	83.0	1.47	4.6	6.04
Isle of Man	84,118	90,015	81.1	1.54	-	-
Italy	58.9 mn	43,309	84.0	1.18	6.4	5.08
Kosovo	1.6 mn	7,899	78.2	1.54	-	-
Latvia	1.8 mn	26,312	76.4	1.24	6.6	3.65
Liechtenstein	41,024	220,167	84.2	1.37	-	-
Lithuania	2.9 mn	32,959	77.2	1.11	6.7	4.49
Luxembourg	686,970	147,252	83.2	1.25	6.3	10.56
Malta	579,704	47,907	83.0	1.01	2.9	3.18
Moldova	2.4 mn	8,622	71.3	1.73	1.5	3.42
Monaco	38,341	288,002	86.5	2.10	-	-
Montenegro	623,129	14,817	77.9	1.80	13.6	-
Netherlands	18.1 mn	73,684	82.0	1.43	3.9	6.60
North Macedonia	1.8 mn	10,490	76.6	1.40	12.3	4.00
Norway	5.6 mn	94,594	83.2	1.45	4.6	7.18
Poland	36.4 mn	28,420	78.4	1.14	3.0	7.55
Portugal	10.8 mn	32,082	82.4	1.41	6.2	3.32
Romania	19 mn	22,538	76.5	1.39	6.0	3.72
Russia	143.5 mn	17,547	73.4	1.42	2.1	13.98
San Marino	34,109	59,871	85.8	1.16	-	-
Serbia	6.5 mn	15,262	76.0	1.64	7.1	-
Slovakia	5.4 mn	28,544	78.4	1.46	5.4	5.51
Slovenia	2.1 mn	37,376	82.3	1.52	3.2	6.27
Spain	49.4 mn	38,627	83.9	1.10	10.4	4.51
Sweden	10.6 mn	63,133	84.1	1.43	8.7	3.57
Switzerland	9.1 mn	114,769	84.4	1.29	4.9	3.75
Ukraine	39 mn	5,866	74.7	0.99	9.8	3.13
United Kingdom	69.5 mn	57,602	81.4	1.55	4.7	4.22

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Europe compared with the world

median country vs world

Indicator	Year	Europe median	World
Population
Population	2025	5.6 mn	8.2 bn
Population density · /km²	2023	96.8	62.1
Population growth · %	2025	0.13	0.91
Life expectancy at birth · years	2024	81.6	73.5
Fertility rate	2024	1.41	2.19
Birth rate · ‰	2024	8.4	16.3
Infant mortality · ‰	2024	3.1	27.7
Urban population · %	2025	70.7	57.8
Population aged 65 and over · %	2025	20.9	10.4
Population living in cities (Degree of Urbanisation) · %	2025	32.0	44.8
Population living in towns and semi-dense areas (Degree of Urbanisation) · %	2025	35.2	35.6
Population living in rural areas (Degree of Urbanisation) · %	2025	31.4	19.6
Human development
Human Development Index (HDI)	2023	0.914	0.756
Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI)	2023	0.831	0.590
Planetary pressures-adjusted Human Development Index (PHDI)	2023	0.754	0.680
Gender Inequality Index (GII)	2023	0.075	0.455
Economy
Gross domestic product · US$	2025	246.5 bn	118.4 tn
GDP per capita · US$	2025	34,418	14,406
GDP per capita, purchasing power parity · int. $	2025	56,838	25,704
GNI per capita (Atlas method) · US$	2025	32,310	14,244
Real GDP growth · %	2025	1.8	2.9
Inflation, consumer prices · %	2025	3.4	3.0
Trade (exports plus imports) · %	2025	105.1	68.5
Exports of goods and services · %	2025	50.3	29.5
Foreign direct investment, net inflows · %	2024	2.6	1.4
Manufacturing, value added · %	2025	12.0	14.9
Agriculture, forestry and fishing, value added · %	2025	2.3	4.0
Tax revenue · %	2024	21.4	13.8
Central government debt · %	2019	48.3	-
Military expenditure · %	2024	2.0	2.5
Labour
Unemployment rate (modelled ILO estimate) · %	2025	5.6	4.8
Youth unemployment rate (modelled ILO estimate) · %	2025	14.4	13.4
Female labour force participation · %	2025	55.1	48.9
Employment in agriculture (modelled ILO estimate) · %	2025	3.6	25.8
Average weekly hours actually worked per employed person · h	2025	33.9	40.9
Youth not in employment, education or training (NEET), ages 15-24 · %	2025	9.7	20.0
Labour income share of GDP · %	2024	54.2	52.5
Output per hour worked (GDP, constant 2021 international $ at PPP) · $	2025	57.6	23.3
Health
Current health expenditure · %	2023	8.2	10.1
Current health expenditure per capita · US$	2023	3,072	1,317
Physicians · /1,000	2022	4.17	1.86
Under-5 mortality · ‰	2024	3.7	37.4
Maternal mortality ratio (modelled estimate) · /100k	2023	6	197
Current tobacco use among adults · %	2024	26.6	20.3
People using safely managed drinking water · %	2024	98.5	73.7
Food
Dietary energy supply per person · kcal	2023	3,458	3,017
Average protein supply per person (3-year average) · g	2022	112.2	92.5
Average supply of protein of animal origin per person (3-year average) · g	2022	69.3	38.7
Average fat supply per person (3-year average) · g	2022	140.8	89.7
Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity (3-year average) · %	2024	7.9	26.8
Prevalence of severe food insecurity (3-year average) · %	2024	1.9	9.8
Cereal import dependency ratio (3-year average) · %	2022	12.2	-0.9
Education
Adult literacy rate · %	2024	-	87.7
School enrolment, secondary (gross) · %	2024	103.8	77.3
School enrolment, tertiary (gross) · %	2023	76.9	43.2
Government expenditure on education · %	2023	3.3	3.6
Expected years of schooling · yrs	2023	16.3	13.0
Mean years of schooling (adults 25+) · yrs	2023	12.4	8.8
Society
Gini index of income inequality	2018	30.7	-
Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) · %	2018	0.3	11.1
Individuals using the internet · %	2024	93.6	71.2
Mobile cellular subscriptions · /100	2024	125.9	110.4
Access to electricity · %	2024	100.0	91.9
Seats held by women in national parliaments · %	2025	35.0	27.2
Refugees
Refugees hosted (under UNHCR mandate, by country of asylum)	2025	95,007	28.5 mn
Refugees hosted per 1,000 inhabitants · ‰	2025	15.2	3.5
Asylum-seekers hosted (pending cases, by country of asylum)	2025	1,317	9 mn
Refugees originating from the country (under UNHCR mandate)	2025	188	28.5 mn
Refugees originating from the country per 1,000 inhabitants · ‰	2025	0.0	3.5
Governance
Control of corruption · /100	2024	64.5	-
Government effectiveness · /100	2024	71.1	-
Rule of law · /100	2024	74.6	-
Regulatory quality · /100	2024	68.0	-
Voice and accountability · /100	2024	76.1	-
Political stability and absence of violence · /100	2024	74.4	-
Environment
CO₂ emissions per capita (excluding land use) · t	2024	5.06	4.69
Fossil CO₂ emissions (fossil fuels and cement) · Mt	2024	32.7	38,598.6
Share of global fossil CO₂ emissions · %	2024	0.08	100.00
Cumulative fossil CO₂ emissions since 1750 · Gt	2024	3.2	1,849.1
Total greenhouse gas emissions per capita (excluding land use) · t	2024	7.07	6.36
Renewable energy consumption · %	2021	20.5	-
Forest area · %	2023	32.9	31.1
PM2.5 air pollution, mean annual exposure · µg/m³	2023	11.5	32.9
Level of water stress (freshwater withdrawal of available resources) · %	2022	8.1	-
Land area · km²	2023	62,600	129.8 mn
Energy
Share of renewables in electricity generation · %	2024	50.2	31.6
Share of wind and solar in electricity generation · %	2024	18.7	15.0
Share of nuclear in electricity generation · %	2024	0.0	9.0
Share of low-carbon sources (renewables and nuclear) in electricity generation · %	2024	71.1	40.6
Share of fossil fuels in electricity generation · %	2024	28.9	59.4
Share of coal in electricity generation · %	2024	1.6	34.4
Carbon intensity of electricity generation · g/kWh	2024	230	474
Electricity demand per capita · MWh	2024	5.65	3.81

The median is the middle country: half of the countries of Europe are above it, half below. Unlike an average it is not pulled by one very large or very rich country. For totals (population, GDP) the world column is the world total, not comparable with the median.