🇪🇺 European Index

🇪🇺 EU vs 🇺🇸 US vs 🇨🇳 China

The European Union, the United States and China as single blocs, on comparable World Bank headline indicators. Money values are converted from US$ to euro at a fixed rate (1 US$ ≈ €0.92). Figures are the latest available per bloc — the year is shown under each value. Source: World Bank (data.worldbank.org).

Metric 🇪🇺
European Union
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United States
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China
GDP €19,544.0 bn 2025 €28,308.0 bn 2025 €17,938.0 bn 2025
GDP per capita €43,322 2025 €82,824 2025 €12,753 2025
Unemployment 5.9 % 2025 4.2 % 2025 4.6 % 2025
Inflation 2.5 % 2025 2.9 % 2024 0.1 % 2025
Population 451,127,411 2025 341,784,857 2025 1,406,585,000 2025
Population growth 0.2 % 2025 0.5 % 2025 -0.2 % 2025
Life expectancy 81.6 yrs 2024 78.9 yrs 2024 78.0 yrs 2024
Fertility rate 1.3 2024 1.6 2024 1.0 2024
Population 65+ 22.4 % 2025 18.4 % 2025 14.9 % 2025
Population 0-14 14.2 % 2025 17.1 % 2025 15.4 % 2025
Urban population 75.2 % 2025 80.2 % 2025 66.3 % 2025
Population density 113 /km² 2023 37 /km² 2023 150 /km² 2023
Homicide rate 1.0 per 100k 2015 5.8 per 100k 2023 0.5 per 100k 2020

Highlighted cells are best-in-comparison per metric's direction. ⚠️ marks a metric that isn't cleanly comparable.

GDP per capita
050k100k20142025European Union 2014: €32,743European Union 2015: €28,310European Union 2016: €28,940European Union 2017: €30,723European Union 2018: €33,191European Union 2019: €32,544European Union 2020: €31,919European Union 2021: €36,070European Union 2022: €35,021European Union 2023: €38,242European Union 2024: €39,849European Union 2025: €43,322United States 2014: €50,741United States 2015: €52,302United States 2016: €53,338United States 2017: €55,244United States 2018: €57,846United States 2019: €60,010United States 2020: €59,308United States 2021: €65,726United States 2022: €71,768United States 2023: €75,980United States 2024: €79,276United States 2025: €82,824China 2014: €7,159China 2015: €7,521China 2016: €7,594China 2017: €8,261China 2018: €9,279China 2019: €9,515China 2020: €9,777China 2021: €11,856China 2022: €11,933China 2023: €11,915China 2024: €12,230China 2025: €12,753
  • 🇪🇺 European Union
  • 🇺🇸 United States
  • 🇨🇳 China

Yearly values, newest on the right. Axes are scaled to the plotted range, not to zero.