Gross domestic product per inhabitant at current prices
- Eurostat dataset
- nama_10_pc
- Reference period
- 2025
- Unit of measure
- euro per inhabitant
Key estimates
- EU aggregate (2025): 41 570 euro per inhabitant.
- Highest value: Luxembourg at 130 300 euro per inhabitant; lowest: North Macedonia at 9 310 euro per inhabitant.
- Cross-country mean 44 927 euro per inhabitant, standard deviation 28 728, coefficient of variation 63.9% across 34 reporting countries.
- Aggregate change 2014→2025: +62.9% on a constant panel of 34 countries.
How large is the income gradient between European economies? Eurostat dataset nama_10_pc reports gross domestic product per inhabitant at current prices for 34 reporting countries, with 2025 as the most recent period carrying broad coverage. The European aggregate stands at 41 570 euro per inhabitant. GDP per inhabitant at current prices is the reference scale variable for nearly every ratio in European economic statistics.
The five highest values in 2025 are recorded by Luxembourg (130 300), Ireland (110 150), Switzerland (101 810), Iceland (87 410), Norway (83 860), all expressed in euro per inhabitant. At the opposite end of the distribution sit North Macedonia (9 310), Montenegro (13 110), Serbia (13 540), Bulgaria (18 060), Romania (19 960). The ratio between the highest and the lowest observation is 14.00, while the median country reports 35 530 euro per inhabitant against a mean of 44 927 euro per inhabitant.
Dispersion is wide: the standard deviation across countries is 28 728 euro per inhabitant, giving a coefficient of variation of 63.9%. The mean sits above the median, which indicates that the distribution is pulled by the upper tail rather than being symmetric. Any European average quoted for this indicator therefore describes a synthetic country that few Member States resemble.
Between 2014 and 2025 the summed value across the 34 countries reporting in both periods moved by +62.9%. The largest relative increases are observed in Bulgaria (+197.0%), Romania (+164.0%), Serbia (+160.9%); the largest decreases, or the smallest increases, in Norway (+10.7%), Sweden (+25.4%), Finland (+32.3%). Because the panel is held constant, this change is not an artefact of countries entering or leaving the sample.
Higher values are the policy-preferred direction for this indicator, so the countries listed at the bottom of the distribution mark the effective size of the European gap: closing it to the level of the fifth-ranked country would require the lowest performer to move by 74 550 euro per inhabitant. The estimates above are reproducible: the dataset identifier, filter dimensions and reference period are stated in the methodological note, and the series can be re-downloaded from the Eurostat dissemination API at any time.
Methodological note
Source: Eurostat, dataset nama_10_pc ('Gross domestic product (GDP) and main components per capita - annual data'), extracted from the Eurostat dissemination API (JSON-stat 2.0) on the dataset update of 2026-07-27. Filter dimensions: unit=CP_EUR_HAB; na_item=B1GQ. Unit of measure: euro per inhabitant. Reference period: 2025. Geographic perimeter: national reporting units with two-character geo codes (34 countries with a non-missing observation); European and euro-area aggregates are excluded from the cross-country statistics and reported separately. Descriptive statistics (mean, median, population standard deviation, coefficient of variation) are computed unweighted over reporting countries. Change over time is computed on a constant panel: only countries with a non-missing observation in both the base and the reference period enter the calculation, which removes composition effects but may differ from the officially published aggregate. No imputation, seasonal adjustment or re-scaling has been applied beyond what Eurostat performs at source. Flagged provisional and estimated observations are retained as published.
Source data
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