Greece, together with Bulgaria, ranks at the bottom of the EU in terms of its purchasing power, Eurostat figures show. Greece’s gross domestic product per capita was at 68% of the European Union average in 2025, the same as in 2024, a performance that ranks it last among the EU-27, along with Bulgaria.
In 2015, with the country in a bailout regime and with capital controls in place, the GDP per capita in Greece was at 69% of the EU average. In absolute figures, the GDP per capita today might be higher than in 2015, but Eurostat data show that in reality Greece is yet to regain the lost ground, while the other European countries and especially the newer members of the EU ran at a much faster pace.
GDP per capita in Bulgaria may currently be 68% of the European average, but in 2015 it was only 49%. In Romania it was 56% in 2015 and today it is 78% of the EU average, as is Croatia, compared to 61% 10 years ago.
Greece’s deviation from the eurozone average is even greater, as the country’s GDP per capita is 34%. That was indeed higher, but also at low levels compared to other EU member-states is the real individual consumption in purchasing power units. Specifically, according to Eurostat data, the real individual consumption in Greece in purchasing power units was 80% of the EU average in 2025, in 21st place among the EU-27.
