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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

2026-08

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

  1. 1Czechia3.3%
  2. 2Poland3.4%
  3. 3Malta3.5%
  4. 4Slovenia3.5%
  5. 5Bulgaria3.6%
  6. 6Cyprus3.9%
  7. 7Germany4.0%
  8. 8Netherlands4.0%
  9. 9Croatia4.3%
  10. 10Hungary4.5%
  11. 11Ireland5.0%
  12. 12Portugal5.7%
  13. 13Slovakia5.7%
  14. 14Italy5.8%
  15. 15Belgium6.0%
  16. 16Lithuania6.2%
  17. 17Austria6.2%
  18. 18Romania6.4%
  19. 19Denmark6.7%
  20. 20Estonia6.9%
  21. 21Luxembourg7.1%
  22. 22Latvia7.3%
  23. 23Greece7.9%
  24. 24France8.3%
  25. 25Sweden8.9%
  26. 26Spain10.0%
  27. 27Finland10.5%

Ranked lowest first. Source: Eurostat une_rt_m.

Real GDP per capita

2025

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

  1. 1Luxembourg€100,380
  2. 2Ireland€94,930
  3. 3Denmark€60,390
  4. 4Netherlands€51,400
  5. 5Sweden€49,250
  6. 6Austria€45,390
  7. 7Belgium€44,650
  8. 8Germany€43,750
  9. 9Finland€43,450
  10. 10France€38,360
  11. 11Malta€34,360
  12. 12Italy€33,080
  13. 13Cyprus€30,590
  14. 14Spain€28,320
  15. 15Slovenia€25,940
  16. 16Portugal€22,560
  17. 17Czechia€22,510
  18. 18Estonia€21,820
  19. 19Lithuania€20,260
  20. 20Greece€19,400
  21. 21Slovakia€19,270
  22. 22Croatia€17,590
  23. 23Latvia€17,520
  24. 24Poland€17,170
  25. 25Hungary€16,370
  26. 26Romania€13,190
  27. 27Bulgaria€11,710
  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