Euro Area GDP Annual Growth Rate

Last Release

Sep 30, 2025

Actual

1.4

Units In

1.4

Frequency

Quarterly

Next Release

N/A

Time to Release

N/A

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
14.4 Jun 2021	-14.5 Jun 2020	1.53 %	1995-2025	Eurostat

The Euro Area is the second largest economy in the world. Of the 19 member states it includes, the biggest are: Germany (29 percent of total GDP), France (20 percent), Italy (15 percent) and Spain (10 percent). On the expenditure side, household consumption is the main component of GDP and accounts for 54 percent of its total use, followed by gross fixed capital formation (21 percent) and government expenditure (20 percent). Exports of goods and services account for 47 percent of GDP while imports account for 43 percent, adding 4 percent of total GDP.

Latest Updates

Eurozone GDP grew 1.4% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2025, compared to the 1.6% expansion recorded in both the first and second quarters, and broadly in line with the previous estimate. A slowdown was seen in household expenditure (1.1% vs 1.6%) and investment (2.5% vs 3.2%) while faster growth was recorded for government spending (1.7% vs 1.5%), exports (2.7% vs 0.5%) and imports (3.6% vs 2.7%). Spain led the major economies, expanding 2.8% (vs 3% in Q2), followed by the Netherlands at 1.6% (vs 1.7%) and France at 0.9% (up from 0.7%). Italy GDP growth was faster (0.6% vs 0.5%) and in Germany remained steady at 0.3%. GDP growth rate was also unchanged in Belgium at 1%. Compared to Q2, the Eurozone economy expanded by 0.3%, up from 0.1% in Q2 and better than 0.2% in the initial estimates.