Economy and finance
In the third quarter of 2025, the EU seasonally adjusted current account of the balance of payments recorded a surplus of €57.3 billion (+1.2% of GDP), compared with a surplus of €80.5 billion (+1.7% of GDP) in the second quarter of 2025 and a surplus of €96.1 billion (+2.1% of GDP) in the third ...
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The household saving rate in the euro area decreased to 15.1% in the third quarter of 2025 (compared with 15.4% in the second quarter of 2025), which is explained by consumption increasing at a faster rate than gross disposable income (respectively +0.9% and +0.6%).
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In October 2025, compared with September 2025, seasonally adjusted services production increased by 0.3% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In September 2025, services production grew by 0.1% in the euro area...
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In November 2025, compared with October 2025, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume increased by 0.2% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In October 2025, retail trade volume grew by 0.3% in the euro are...
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In the third quarter of 2025, house prices, as measured by the House Price Index, increased by 5.1% in the euro area and by 5.5% in the EU compared with the same quarter of the previous year. In the second quarter of 2025, house prices increased by 5.1% and 5.5% in the euro area and EU, respectiv...
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In November 2025, compared with October 2025, industrial producer prices increased by 0.5% in the euro area and by 0.6% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In October 2025, industrial producer prices grew by 0.1% in both the euro ar...
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In November 2025, the euro area seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.3%, down from 6.4% in October 2025 and up from 6.2% in November 2024. The EU unemployment rate was 6.0% in November 2025, stable compared with October 2025 and up from 5.8% in November 2024. These figures are published by...
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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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In October 2025, compared with September 2025, seasonally adjusted production in construction increased by 0.9% in the euro area and by 0.8% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In September 2025, production in construction fell by 0...
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In the third quarter of 2025 the hourly labour costs rose by 3.3% in the euro area and by 3.7% 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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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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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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Between 2004 and 2024, household real income per capita in the EU grew by 22%.
Income per capita grew steadily between 2004 and 2008, stagnated between 2008 and 2011 due to the global financial crisis and declined in 2012 and 2013. Since then, income resumed the steady growth until the year 2020...
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In 2024, household final consumption expenditure in the EU, corrected for inflation, grew by 1.5% compared with 2023. This increase was stronger than in 2023, when growth stood at 0.4%.
Among the main categories, household spending on information and communication increased the most (+5.7%), fol...
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In 2024, the average annual full-time adjusted salary for employees in the EU was €39 800, reflecting a 5.2% increase from €37 800 in 2023.
Among the EU countries, the highest average annual full-time adjusted salary was recorded in Luxembourg (€83 000), followed by Denmark (€71 600) and Ireland...
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Net foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks held in non-EU countries by investors resident in the EU amounted to €9 309 billion in 2024, reflecting a 1.5% increase from 2023 (€9 168 billion).
A different trend was seen in investment stocks held by non-EU residents in the EU, which decreased to €...
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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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Gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices is the final result of the production activity of resident producer units. It is defined as the value of all goods and services produced less the value of any goods or services used in their creation. The ESA 2010 (European System of Accounts) regu...
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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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Private consumption expenditure consists of expenditure incurred for the direct satisfaction of individual or collective needs by private households or non-profit institutions serving households (such as religious societies, sports and other clubs, political parties, etc.). The data are presented...
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Gross Value Added (GVA) (ESA 2010, 9.31) is defined as output value at basic prices less intermediate consumption valued at purchasers' prices. GVA is calculated before consumption of fixed capital. GVA is available in a breakdown by 10 main economic activities according to NACE Rev. 2 (Statistic...
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Gross Value Added (GVA) (ESA 2010, 9.31) is defined as output value at basic prices less intermediate consumption valued at purchasers' prices. GVA is calculated before consumption of fixed capital. GVA is available in a breakdown by 10 main economic activities according to NACE Rev. 2 (Statistic...
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Gross Value Added (GVA) (ESA 2010, 9.31) is defined as output value at basic prices less intermediate consumption valued at purchasers' prices. GVA is calculated before consumption of fixed capital. GVA is available in a breakdown by 10 main economic activities according to NACE Rev. 2 (Statistic...
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Gross Value Added (GVA) (ESA 2010, 9.31) is defined as output value at basic prices less intermediate consumption valued at purchasers' prices. GVA is calculated before consumption of fixed capital. GVA is available in a breakdown by 10 main economic activities according to NACE Rev. 2 (Statistic...
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Gross Value Added (GVA) (ESA 2010, 9.31) is defined as output value at basic prices less intermediate consumption valued at purchasers' prices. GVA is calculated before consumption of fixed capital. GVA is available in a breakdown by 10 main economic activities according to NACE Rev. 2 (Statistic...
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