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Europe in numbers

Politics doesn't happen in a vacuum. These are the headline socioeconomic numbers — jobs, income, prices and poverty — for the member states, so you can read your representatives' votes against the conditions people actually live in. Countries we cover are highlighted and link straight to their national page.

Unemployment rate

2026-09

Share of the labour force without work and actively seeking it.

  1. 1Czechia2.8%
  2. 2Bulgaria3.4%
  3. 3Malta3.4%
  4. 4Poland3.4%
  5. 5Slovenia3.6%
  6. 6Cyprus4.0%
  7. 7Netherlands4.0%
  8. 8Germany4.1%
  9. 9Croatia4.3%
  10. 10Hungary4.6%
  11. 11Ireland5.0%
  12. 12Portugal5.6%
  13. 13Slovakia5.7%
  14. 14Belgium6.0%
  15. 15Lithuania6.2%
  16. 16Italy6.3%
  17. 17Austria6.3%
  18. 18Romania6.3%
  19. 19Denmark6.8%
  20. 20Latvia7.3%
  21. 21Luxembourg7.3%
  22. 22Greece7.6%
  23. 23Estonia8.0%
  24. 24France8.5%
  25. 25Sweden8.6%
  26. 26Spain10.3%
  27. 27Finland11.0%

Ranked lowest first. Source: Eurostat une_rt_m.

Real GDP per capita

2025

Economic output per person, inflation-adjusted (chain-linked volumes).

  1. 1Luxembourg€102,840
  2. 2Ireland€94,930
  3. 3Denmark€60,390
  4. 4Netherlands€51,400
  5. 5Sweden€49,250
  6. 6Austria€45,580
  7. 7Belgium€44,550
  8. 8Germany€43,750
  9. 9Finland€43,470
  10. 10France€38,360
  11. 11Malta€34,360
  12. 12Italy€33,260
  13. 13Cyprus€32,460
  14. 14Spain€28,260
  15. 15Slovenia€25,940
  16. 16Portugal€22,670
  17. 17Czechia€22,510
  18. 18Estonia€21,820
  19. 19Lithuania€20,690
  20. 20Greece€19,700
  21. 21Slovakia€19,540
  22. 22Croatia€17,770
  23. 23Latvia€17,450
  24. 24Poland€17,210
  25. 25Hungary€16,410
  26. 26Romania€13,300
  27. 27Bulgaria€11,470
  28. 28MD€4,800

Ranked highest first. Source: Eurostat sdg_08_10.

Inflation (HICP)

2025-12

Annual rate of change in consumer prices (Harmonised Index).

  1. 1Cyprus0.1%
  2. 2France0.7%
  3. 3Italy1.2%
  4. 4Finland1.7%
  5. 5Czechia1.8%
  6. 6Denmark1.9%
  7. 7Germany2.0%
  8. 8Sweden2.1%
  9. 9Belgium2.2%
  10. 10Malta2.4%
  11. 11Portugal2.4%
  12. 12Poland2.5%
  13. 13Slovenia2.6%
  14. 14Ireland2.7%
  15. 15Netherlands2.7%
  16. 16Greece2.9%
  17. 17Spain3.0%
  18. 18Lithuania3.2%
  19. 19Luxembourg3.3%
  20. 20Hungary3.3%
  21. 21Latvia3.4%
  22. 22Bulgaria3.5%
  23. 23Croatia3.8%
  24. 24Austria3.8%
  25. 25Estonia4.0%
  26. 26Slovakia4.1%
  27. 27Romania8.6%

Ranked lowest first. Source: Eurostat prc_hicp_manr.

At-risk-of-poverty rate

2025

Share of people below 60% of the national median income, after transfers.

  1. 1Czechia9.6%
  2. 2Belgium10.9%
  3. 3Denmark11.8%
  4. 4Slovakia12.2%
  5. 5Ireland13.0%
  6. 6Poland13.2%
  7. 7Netherlands13.4%
  8. 8Finland13.4%
  9. 9Hungary14.0%
  10. 10Slovenia14.3%
  11. 11Luxembourg14.8%
  12. 12Cyprus14.9%
  13. 13Portugal15.4%
  14. 14Sweden15.6%
  15. 15Austria15.9%
  16. 16Germany16.1%
  17. 17France16.3%
  18. 18Malta16.9%
  19. 19Romania18.4%
  20. 20Italy18.6%
  21. 21Estonia19.5%
  22. 22Spain19.5%
  23. 23Croatia19.5%
  24. 24Greece19.6%
  25. 25Bulgaria21.2%
  26. 26Latvia22.0%
  27. 27Lithuania22.6%

Ranked lowest first. Source: Eurostat tessi010.

Source: Eurostat — the statistical office of the European Union, via its open dissemination API, cached hourly. Figures are the latest available period per indicator and may differ in vintage. Eurostat codes 'EL' (Greece) and 'UK' are mapped to our country list. ec.europa.eu/eurostat