Economy and finance

The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €36.8 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in March 2025, compared with +€22.8 bn in March 2024.
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In March 2025, compared with February 2025, seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 2.6% in the euro area and by 1.9% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In February 2025, industrial production grew by 1.1% in both th...
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In the first 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 flash estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the fourth quarter of 2024, GDP had increased by 0.2%...
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In February 2025, compared with January 2025, seasonally adjusted services production decreased by 0.1% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In January 2025, services production grew by 0.4% in the euro area an...
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In March 2025, compared with February 2025, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume decreased by 0.1% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In February 2025, retail trade volume grew by 0.2% in the euro area...
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In March 2025, compared with February 2025, industrial producer prices decreased by 1.6% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In February 2025, industrial producer prices grew by 0.2% in the euro area and by 0....
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Euro area unemployment at 6.2%

May 2, 2025
Eurostat
In March 2025, the euro area seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.2%, stable compared with February 2025 and down from 6.5% in March 2024. The EU unemployment rate was 5.8% in March 2025, also stable compared with February 2025 and down from 6.0% in March 2024. These figures are published ...
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Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 2.2% in April 2025, stable compared to March according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
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In the first quarter of 2025, seasonally adjusted GDP increased by 0.4% in the euro area and by 0.3% in 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 fourth quarter of 2024, GDP had...
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In the fourth quarter of 2024, household real consumption per capita increased by 0.4% in the euro area, after an increase of 0.7% in the previous quarter. In the same period, household real income per capita increased by 0.3%, after an increase of 0.4% in the third quarter of 2024.
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The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €24.0 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in February 2025, compared with + €21.7 bn in February 2024.
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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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In 2024, the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita expressed in purchasing power standards (PPS) ranged between 66% of the EU average in Bulgaria and 241% in Luxembourg. This information comes from the preliminary estimates of purchasing power parities (PPPs) and GDP for 2024 published by Euro...
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In 2023, the EU countries’ general government expenditure on defence amounted to €227 billion, representing 2.7% of total general government expenditure. This is equivalent to 1.3% of GDP. At EU level, the share of defence expenditure in total expenditure decreased from 3.0% in 1995 to 2.7% in 2...
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In 2023, real GDP increased in 154 EU regions compared with 2022, while decreases were registered in 85 regions.  The region with the largest growth in real GDP was Malta (a single region at this level of detail), with a 6.7% increase, followed by Severen Tsentralen in Bulgaria (+5.8%), Illes Ba...
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In 2023, personal transfers outflows from the EU (money sent by EU resident households to non-resident households) reached a record level of €50.9 billion, an 8% increase compared with 2022 (€47.0 billion).  The largest share of these outflows went to Asia (excluding the Near and Middle East), a...
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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 2020 and 2021, government guarantees, provided in the EU, increased substantially following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the ...
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In 2022, EU exports of spacecraft and space transport services totalled €1 340 million after experiencing a 36% drop compared with 2021 (€2 108 million). In 2022, 84% of all exports, or €1 129 million, went to countries outside the EU. The EU exports peaked in 2012, at €3 273 million, and declin...
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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 conso...
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The non-financial corporations stocks, excluding foreign direct investments, represents the net amount of liabilities which the sector non-financial corporations (S.11) have incurred during the year.

The instruments that are taken into account to compile the non-financial corporations se...
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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 (meani...
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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....
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The non-financial corporations sector credit flow represents the net amount of liabilities which the sector non-financial corporations (S.11) have incurred during the year.

The instruments taken into account to compile this indicator are Debt securities (F.3) and Loans (F.4), from which ...
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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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Building permits - annual data

May 17, 2025
Eurostat

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 yield curves - daily data

May 17, 2025
Eurostat