Investment share of GDP in Euro area

Investment in the euro area was equal to 21.9% of GDP in 2025.

Euro area is a group: Euro area; membership follows each source definition (World Bank EMU, ECB U2 changing composition). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Euro area, 2025 21.9% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +0.5percentage points 2024: 21.4%
World, 2024 26.3% Official aggregate Not the same period as Euro area (2025).

Investment share of GDP in Euro area over time

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% of GDP. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Investment (gross capital formation) as a share of GDP (% of GDP), 2001 to 2025
Period Euro areaWorld
2025 21.9% –
2024 21.4% 26.3%
2023 22.4% 26.7%
2022 23.9% 27.5%
2021 22.8% 27.2%
2020 22.0% 26.5%
2019 22.4% 26.6%
2018 21.6% 26.7%
2017 21.0% 26.1%
2016 20.4% 25.7%
2015 20.2% 25.9%
2014 19.8% 25.9%
2013 19.4% 25.6%
2012 19.8% 25.5%
2011 21.3% 25.3%
2010 20.8% 24.6%
2009 20.2% 23.4%
2008 23.5% 25.5%
2007 23.9% 25.5%
2006 23.2% 25.0%
2005 22.2% 24.5%
2004 21.9% 24.1%
2003 21.7% 23.4%
2002 21.8% 23.3%
2001 22.9% 23.9%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.5 percentage points from 21.4% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 20.2%, the figure has changed by +1.7 percentage points.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank and OECD national accounts data, from national statistical offices
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
NE.GDI.TOTL.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1970 to 2025 for Euro area
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank and OECD national accounts data, from national statistical offices