This dataset provides values for GDP PER CAPITA PPP reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is a measure of economic production, which takes the entire output of a national economy during a year and divides it by the population of that country. In the European Union, Luxembourg, Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Austria come out on top as the countries which produced the most per capita in 2023. Europe's richest countries benefit from multinational companies Many criticisms have been made of using GDP per capita as away to judge a country's economic wealth in recent years, as global capital flows have come to distort the statistics and to give a warped impression of different countries' wealth. This is most notably the case for Ireland and for Luxembourg, which while certainly high-income countries, have experienced dramatic booms in their GDP over the past two decades due to the accounting practices of the large multinational corporations which have their European headquarters in these member states, such as Facebook and Apple in Dublin, and Amazon in Luxembourg. Will the poorest countries converge towards the EU average? At the bottom of the list, two of the most recent member states of the EU, Romania and Bulgaria, come last in terms of GDP per capita. Whether these countries will be able to capitalize on their relatively low-wages to spur economic growth and experience the convergence towards the older member states of the union shown by countries such as Estonia, Czechia, and Lithuania, remains a pressing issue for these poorer member states.

The Gross Domestic Product per capita in European Union was last recorded at 34601.03 US dollars in 2023. The GDP per Capita in European Union is equivalent to 274 percent of the world's average. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - European Union GDP Per Capita - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The average for 2023 based on 44 countries was 44137.65 U.S. dollars. The highest value was in Monaco: 256580.52 U.S. dollars and the lowest value was in Ukraine: 5069.7 U.S. dollars. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

This dataset provides values for GDP PER CAPITA reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, GDP per capita rose significantly across Europe, however, at varying rates across different regions. Scandinavia, which did not experience the same level of structural devastation during the World Wars as the other regions, saw the largest GDP per capita growth during this period. Over these five decades, Scandinavian countries transformed from traditional agricultural societies to some of the world's wealthiest and industrially advanced economies. Between 1913 and 1950, Scandinavian GDP per capita doubled, eventually overtaking Western Europe as the highest in Europe. In comparison, East-Central Europe's growth was much slower, rising by just 26 percent between 1913 and 1915.

This statistic shows the gross domestic product (GDP) of the European Union (EU) per capita from 2012 to 2023. In 2023, the GDP amounted to 38,130 euros per capita in the European Union. The overall EU GDP in current prices amounted to 17.1 trillion euros that year. See the total EU population figures for more information.

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Between 1900 and 1950, Scandinavian countries saw the largest growth in GDP per capita in Europe, more than doubling between 1913 and 1950. In comparison, growth rates were much lower in Western Europe, and lower still in East-Central Europe. From 1913 (the year before the First World War) until the end of the Second World War's recovery period in 1950, Western Europe's GDP per capita grew by just 43 percent, while East-Central Europe's figure increased by just 26 percent.

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Data from 1st of June 2022. For most recent GDP data, consult dataset nama_10_gdp. Gross domestic product (GDP) is a measure for the economic activity. It is defined as the value of all goods and services produced less the value of any goods or services used in their creation. The volume index of GDP per capita in Purchasing Power Standards (PPS) is expressed in relation to the European Union average set to equal 100. If the index of a country is higher than 100, this country's level of GDP per head is higher than the EU average and vice versa. Basic figures are expressed in PPS, i.e. a common currency that eliminates the differences in price levels between countries allowing meaningful volume comparisons of GDP between countries. Please note that the index, calculated from PPS figures and expressed with respect to EU27_2020 = 100, is intended for cross-country comparisons rather than for temporal comparisons."

GDP per capita is gross domestic product divided by midyear population. GDP is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

In the 16 years leading up to the First World War, the growth of GDP per capita varied across Europe, from growth rates of just six percent in the Netherlands, to 37 percent in Denmark. Of the major powers, France and Germany experienced the largest growth in this period, at 32 percent growth each, while Britain's growth was roughly half of this. It is important to remember, that the GDP per capita, along with economic development and industrialization, varied across Europe in this time period. For these reasons, Central and Eastern Europe had a higher overall GDP per capita growth rate than Western Europe, although Western Europe was much more advanced due to where its economy was in 1897.

In 1950, GDP per capita in Western Europe (29 countries) was just 48 percent of GDP per capita in the U.S. The post-war economic boom from 1950 to 1973 was the most prosperous period in Western Europe's history, and GDP per capita more than doubled in this period, reaching 69 percent of the U.S.' rate. Due to several economic crises in Europe in the following decades, growth rates in Western Europe remained relatively stable. Still, they did not reach the same heights as seen during the so-called Golden Age of Capitalism.

In contrast, the U.S. had been harder hit than Western Europe by the economic difficulties of the 1970s and 1980s, but the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 coincided with one of the most successful decades in U.S. history, with the economy thriving in the 1990s. For Western Europe, the fall of communism had a knock-on effect that limited growth in the early 1990s, although GDP per capita compared to the U.S. was fairly similar to 1973's rate (albeit lower) at 66 percent.

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European Union GDP Per Capita: EA data was reported at 33,900.000 EUR in 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 32,900.000 EUR for 2017. European Union GDP Per Capita: EA data is updated yearly, averaging 28,000.000 EUR from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2018, with 24 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 33,900.000 EUR in 2018 and a record low of 19,300.000 EUR in 1995. European Union GDP Per Capita: EA data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Eurostat. The data is categorized under Global Database’s European Union – Table EU.A013: ESA 2010: Eurostat: GDP: GDP per Capita.

European Union EU27: DG ECFIN Forecast:(GDP) Gross Domestic Productper Capita: Gross National Income data was reported at 42.539 EUR th in 2026. This records an increase from the previous number of 41.003 EUR th for 2025. European Union EU27: DG ECFIN Forecast:(GDP) Gross Domestic Productper Capita: Gross National Income data is updated yearly, averaging 25.245 EUR th from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2026, with 31 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 42.539 EUR th in 2026 and a record low of 14.861 EUR th in 1995. European Union EU27: DG ECFIN Forecast:(GDP) Gross Domestic Productper Capita: Gross National Income data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by European Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs. The data is categorized under Global Database’s European Union – Table EU.DG ECFIN.AMECO: GDP per Capita: Forecast.

In the decade that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communist systems in Eastern Europe, economic conditions across the region generally got worse before they improved. GDP per capita had been declining throughout most of the 1980s but fell dramatically as communism ended. In Central and Eastern Europe, economic recovery began in the early 1990s, whereas this process did not start until 1996 in the former-Soviet states. As a result, GDP per capita in Central and Eastern Europe had almost returned to its 1989 level within a decade, whereas GDP per capita in the former-Soviet states had dropped by 45 percent between 1989 and 1998. This transitionary period in the continent's east did have a knock-on effect on the continent's West. However, growth did continue. Additionally, GDP per capita was 2.2 times larger in the West than in the Soviet Union in 1989, but by 1998 it was 4.6 times larger.

Throughout the early 20th century, Italy consistently had the highest GDP per capita in Southern Europe, which grew consistently at each given interval. Portugal was the only other country to see consistent growth between the four given years, whereas the civil wars in Spain (1936-1939) and Greece (1946-1949) saw their respective GDP per capita fall in the corresponding years. Overall, GDP per capita across these four countries grew by just 28 percent between 1913 and 1950, although it did drop in 1938 due to the Spanish Civil War. Southern Europe's GDP per capita in 1950 was just 51 percent of the rate in Western Europe.