Real GDP growth rate (Eurostat)
The percentage change in gross domestic product compared with the previous year, measured in chain-linked volumes so that price changes are removed.
36 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.
Trend over time
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% change on previous year, chain-linked volumes. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union | Germany | France | Spain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4% | 0.2%p (provisional) | 0.8%p (provisional) | 2.6%p (provisional) |
| 2024 | 1.4% | 0.0%p (provisional) | 1.5%p (provisional) | 3.7%p (provisional) |
| 2023 | 0.4% | -1.0%p (provisional) | 1.6% | 2.4% |
| 2022 | 3.6% | 1.9% | 2.7% | 6.4% |
| 2021 | 6.4% | 4.0% | 6.9% | 6.7% |
| 2020 | -5.5% | -4.0% | -7.4% | -10.9% |
| 2019 | 1.9% | 1.1% | 2.0% | 2.0% |
| 2018 | 2.1% | 1.2% | 1.6% | 2.4% |
| 2017 | 2.9% | 2.9% | 2.1% | 2.9% |
| 2016 | 2.0% | 2.3% | 0.9% | 2.9% |
| 2015 | 2.4% | 1.8% | 1.1% | 4.1% |
| 2014 | 1.6% | 2.2% | 1.0% | 1.5% |
| 2013 | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.8% | -1.4% |
| 2012 | -0.8% | 0.5% | 0.2% | -2.9% |
| 2011 | 1.9% | 3.8% | 2.4% | -0.6% |
| 2010 | 2.1% | 4.1% | 2.0% | 0.1% |
| 2009 | -4.3% | -5.6% | -2.8% | -3.8% |
| 2008 | 0.6% | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0.8% |
| 2007 | 3.1% | 2.9% | 2.5% | 3.5% |
| 2006 | 3.5% | 3.9% | 2.7% | 4.0% |
| 2005 | 1.9% | 0.9% | 1.9% | 3.6% |
| 2004 | 2.5% | 1.2% | 2.9% | 3.1% |
| 2003 | 0.9% | -0.5% | 1.0% | 2.9% |
| 2002 | 1.0% | -0.2% | 1.1% | 2.8% |
| 2001 | 2.1% | 1.6% | 1.9% | 3.9% |
Flags: p provisional . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- Among the 36 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Ireland (8.0%) and the lowest Germany (0.2%).
- Half of the countries are above 2.0% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 11 countries and fell in 20.
- The figure for the European Union was 1.4% in 2025, against -5.5% in 2020 (+6.9 percentage points).
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Source and dates
All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Ireland 8.0%
- 2 Cyprus 4.8%p (provisional)
- 3 Malta 4.7%
- 4 Kosovo 3.8%
- 5 North Macedonia 3.8%p (provisional)
- 6 Poland 3.8%
- 7 Türkiye 3.7%
- 8 Croatia 3.5%p (provisional)
- 9 Denmark 3.5%
- 10 Montenegro 3.3%
- 11 Bulgaria 3.0%
- 12 Lithuania 3.0%
- 13 Czechia 2.6%
- 14 Spain 2.6%p (provisional)
- 15 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.4%
- 16 Latvia 2.2%
- 17 Greece 2.1%p (provisional)
- 18 Serbia 2.1%p (provisional)
- 19 Portugal 1.9%p (provisional)
- 20 Netherlands 1.6%
- 21 Slovenia 1.5%
- 22 Luxembourg 1.4%p (provisional)
- 23 Sweden 1.4%
- 24 Estonia 1.3%
- 25 Switzerland 1.3%
- 26 Iceland 1.1%
- 27 Norway 1.1%
- 28 Belgium 0.9%p (provisional)
- 29 Slovakia 0.9%
- 30 Finland 0.8%
- 31 France 0.8%p (provisional)
- 32 Romania 0.8%p (provisional)
- 33 Austria 0.7%
- 34 Hungary 0.7%p (provisional)
- 35 Italy 0.6%
- 36 Germany 0.2%p (provisional)
- European Union 1.4%
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Grey: no value for 2025. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.