The European Union in numbers
EU summary →GDP per capita
41,700 €/inh.
+1,590 vs 2024
GDP growth
1.4 %
+0.1 vs 2024
Inflation
2.5 %
−0.1 vs 2024
House prices
5.5 %
+2.1 vs 2024
R&D
2.24 % of GDP
−0.02 vs 2023
Electricity price
0.2896 €/kWh
+0.0017 vs 2025S1
Tax-to-GDP ratio
40.3 % of GDP
+0.4 vs 2023
Gas price
0.1228 €/kWh
+0.0085 vs 2025S1
Government debt
81.7 %
+1.0 vs 2024
Price level
100.0
0 vs 2023
Budget balance
-3.1 %
0 vs 2024
Employment
76.1 %
+0.4 vs 2024
Unemployment
6.0 %
0 vs 2024
Gender pay gap
11.1 %
−0.6 vs 2023
Long-term unemployment
1.9 %
0 vs 2024
NEET rate
11.0 %
−0.1 vs 2024
Working hours
37.3 h
0 vs 2024
Healthy life expectancy
65.2 years
+2.1 vs 2023
Infant mortality
3.5 ‰
+0.2 vs 2023
Obesity
16.0 %
+1.1 vs 2014
Population
451,990,314
+705,756 vs 2025
Life expectancy
80.8 years
+0.3 vs 2023
Fertility
1.34
−0.04 vs 2023
Energy imports
57.3 %
−1.1 vs 2023
Municipal waste
517 kg
+6 vs 2023
Renewable electricity
49.9 %
+2.4 vs 2024
Organic farming
9.1 %
+0.6 vs 2019
Air pollution deaths
41 per 100k
−12 vs 2022
Renewables
26.2 %
+1.0 vs 2024
Recycling
48.1 %
+0.2 vs 2023
Health spending
9.9 %
−0.3 vs 2022
Tertiary educated
36.9 %
+1.0 vs 2024
Adult learning
13.7 %
+0.2 vs 2024
Poverty risk
20.9 %
−0.1 vs 2024
Income inequality
28.6
−0.1 vs 2024
Internet use
93.8 %
+1.0 vs 2024
Road deaths
4 per mn
0 vs 2023
Housing overcrowding
16.8 %
−0.1 vs 2024
Passenger cars
584 per 1,000
+7 vs 2024
Early leavers
9.1 %
−0.5 vs 2024
Unable to keep warm
8.8 %
−0.4 vs 2024
Housing overburden
7.7 %
−0.5 vs 2024
Home ownership
68.5 %
+0.1 vs 2024
Travel by car
82.5 %
−0.2 vs 2023
Health expenditure
7.3 % of GDP
+0.1 vs 2023
Education spending
4.7 % of GDP
0 vs 2023
Life satisfaction
7.2 /10
0 vs 2024
Digital skills
60.4 %
+4.8 vs 2023
Countries
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EU member states
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
Other countries covered
- Albania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Georgia
- Iceland
- Kosovo
- Liechtenstein
- Moldova
- Montenegro
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Serbia
- Switzerland
- Türkiye
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
Aggregates: Euro area, European Union
Economy
- GDP per capita 2025 · 34 countries
- Real GDP growth 2025 · 36 countries
- HICP inflation rate 2025 · 36 countries
- Annual change in house prices 2025 · 29 countries
- R&D expenditure 2024 · 32 countries
- Electricity price for households 2025S2 · 38 countries
- Taxes and social contributions to GDP 2024 · 30 countries
- Gas price for households 2025S2 · 30 countries
- Government debt to GDP 2025 · 27 countries
- Price level of household consumption 2024 · 37 countries
- Government balance to GDP 2025 · 27 countries
Labour
- Employment rate, age 20-64 2025 · 34 countries
- ILO unemployment rate 2025 · 34 countries
- Minimum wage 2026S2 · 29 countries
- Gender pay gap 2024 · 30 countries
- Long-term unemployment 2025 · 34 countries
- Young people not in employment, education or training 2025 · 34 countries
- Usual weekly working hours 2025 · 34 countries
Population
- Healthy life years at birth 2024 · 28 countries
- Doctors per 100,000 inhabitants 2024 · 32 countries
- Infant mortality 2024 · 35 countries
- Share of obese adults 2019 · 30 countries
- Population on 1 January 2026 · 39 countries
- Life expectancy at birth 2024 · 36 countries
- Total fertility rate 2024 · 37 countries
Society
- Health expenditure to GDP 2024 · 30 countries
- Tertiary educated, age 25-64 2025 · 34 countries
- Adult participation in learning 2025 · 34 countries
- At risk of poverty or social exclusion 2025 · 30 countries
- Gini coefficient of income inequality 2025 · 30 countries
- Share of people using the internet 2025 · 36 countries
- Road deaths per million inhabitants 2024 · 32 countries
- Share of people in overcrowded housing 2025 · 30 countries
- Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants 2025 · 39 countries
- Early leavers from education and training 2025 · 33 countries
- Households unable to keep their home adequately warm 2025 · 30 countries
- Burglaries per 100,000 inhabitants 2024 · 31 countries
- Households spending over 40% of income on housing 2025 · 30 countries
- Share of people living in owned homes 2025 · 30 countries
- Share of cars in inland passenger transport 2024 · 34 countries
- Government expenditure on health 2024 · 30 countries
- Government expenditure on education 2024 · 30 countries
- Life satisfaction 2025 · 30 countries
- People with basic digital skills 2025 · 36 countries
Environment
- Greenhouse gas emissions per capita 2024 · 31 countries
- Energy import dependency 2024 · 37 countries
- Municipal waste per capita 2024 · 25 countries
- Share of renewables in electricity 2025 · 30 countries
- Share of farmland under organic farming 2024 · 32 countries
- Deaths attributable to air pollution 2023 · 37 countries
- Share of renewables in energy consumption 2025 · 30 countries
- Municipal waste recycling rate 2024 · 24 countries
How indicators relate
Where the data comes from
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