Top 40 European Economies 2018
Here we have a table of the top 40 European countries ranked by Gross Domestic Product. This doesn’t only include European Union Countries but all the countries that are considered part of the continent of Europe.
Some interesting takeaways from this years European GDP figures are the following:
- Romania went up one place to become the 16th largest economy in the European Union (EU) in 2017. In the full list of countries that are considered part of Europe it is at 19th place.
- Russia is still going backwards but that doesn’t seem to be affecting president Putin’s popularity. he won the election easily.
- The Czech Republic is still growing strong, it also surpassed Greece in 2017 but this was largely expected unlike Romania.
- Balkan countries like Croatia that have been hit rather hard in the last few years seem to be on their way to recovery.
| 2018 Rank | Country | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |  Germany |
3,761.142 | 3,545.946 | 3,753.687 | 3,885.440 | 3,365.293 | 3,494.898 | 3,684.816 | 4,211.635 |
| 2nd |  United Kingdom |
2,611.108 | 2,655.458 | 2,721.489 | 2,945.394 | 2,858.482 | 2,649.893 | 2,624.529 | 2,936.286 |
| 3rd |  France |
2,865.304 | 2,682.900 | 2,809.390 | 2,843.673 | 2,420.163 | 2,488.284 | 2,583.560 | 2,925.096 |
| 4th |  Italy |
2,278.376 | 2,073.972 | 2,130.997 | 2,141.937 | 1,815.759 | 1,858.913 | 1,937.894 | 2,181.970 |
| 5th |  Russia |
2,031.768 | 2,170.145 | 2,230.624 | 2,030.973 | 1,326.016 | 1,267.754 | 1,527.469 | 1,719.900 |
| 6th |  Spain |
1,489.381 | 1,340.689 | 1,369.690 | 1,383.537 | 1,199.715 | 1,252.163 | 1,313.951 | 1,506.439 |
| 7th |  Netherlands |
894.576 | 829.406 | 866.951 | 881.033 | 750.696 | 769.930 | 825.745 | 945.327 |
| 8th |  Switzerland |
696.528 | 665.898 | 685.871 | 712.050 | 664.603 | 651.770 | 678.575 | 741.688 |
| 9th |  Poland |
524.104 | 496.687 | 526.031 | 546.644 | 474.893 | 473.501 | 524.886 | 614.190 |
| 10th |  Sweden |
563.110 | 543.881 | 579.526 | 570.137 | 492.618 | 512.748 | 538.575 | 600.771 |
| 11th |  Belgium |
528.721 | 499.129 | 524.970 | 534.672 | 454.687 | 465.248 | 494.733 | 562.229 |
| 12th |  Austria |
429.493 | 407.801 | 428.456 | 437.123 | 374.124 | 387.299 | 416.845 | 477.672 |
| 13th |  Norway |
498.157 | 509.705 | 522.349 | 500.244 | 389.482 | 366.873 | 396.457 | 443.252 |
| 14th |  Ireland |
237.990 | 222.089 | 232.150 | 246.438 | 238.031 | 254.596 | 333.994 | 385.142 |
| 15th |  Denmark |
341.498 | 322.277 | 335.878 | 340.806 | 294.951 | 301.784 | 324.484 | 369.760 |
| 16th |  Finland |
273.925 | 256.849 | 268.281 | 271.165 | 229.671 | 234.578 | 253.244 | 289.557 |
| 17th |  Czech Republic |
227.307 | 206.751 | 208.796 | 205.658 | 181.858 | 185.269 | 213.189 | 251.577 |
| 18th |  Portugal |
245.120 | 216.488 | 224.983 | 230.012 | 199.077 | 205.085 | 218.064 | 248.891 |
| 19th |  Romania |
186.113 | 172.041 | 191.598 | 199.950 | 177.315 | 181.944 | 211.315 | 245.590 |
| 20th |  Greece |
289.068 | 249.663 | 242.306 | 238.023 | 195.320 | 194.594 | 200.690 | 226.774 |
| 21st |  Hungary |
139.447 | 126.825 | 133.424 | 137.104 | 120.636 | 117.729 | 132.034 | 163.541 |
| 22nd |  Ukraine |
163.307 | 175.707 | 179.572 | 130.660 | 90.524 | 83.550 | 109.321 | 119.134 |
| 23rd |  Slovakia |
97.621 | 92.799 | 97.743 | 99.971 | 86.629 | 89.797 | 95.938 | 111.483 |
| 24th |  Luxembourg |
59.010 | 56.323 | 60.150 | 62.395 | 57.423 | 60.176 | 62.393 | 72.461 |
| 25th |  Bulgaria |
55.799 | 52.613 | 54.517 | 55.837 | 48.957 | 49.364 | 56.943 | 64.781 |
| 26th |  Croatia |
62.172 | 56.484 | 57.849 | 57.159 | 48.850 | 49.928 | 54.516 | 61.056 |
| 27th |  Belarus |
59.735 | 63.615 | 71.710 | 76.139 | 54.609 | 45.887 | 54.436 | 59.246 |
| 28th |  Slovenia |
51.299 | 46.288 | 48.005 | 49.506 | 42.768 | 43.791 | 48.868 | 56.933 |
| 29th |  Lithuania |
43.478 | 42.828 | 46.426 | 48.232 | 41.267 | 43.024 | 47.263 | 54.352 |
| 30th |  Serbia |
46.488 | 40.749 | 45.520 | 43.866 | 36.513 | 37.381 | 41.471 | 48.279 |
| 31st |  Latvia |
28.488 | 28.343 | 30.838 | 31.970 | 27.048 | 28.177 | 30.319 | 35.915 |
| 32nd |  Estonia |
22.824 | 22.673 | 24.888 | 25.953 | 22.704 | 23.476 | 25.973 | 30.821 |
| 33rd |  Iceland |
14.666 | 14.183 | 15.330 | 16.693 | 16.718 | 18.633 | 23.909 | 29.109 |
| 34th |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
18.318 | 16.906 | 17.852 | 17.977 | 15.794 | 16.324 | 18.058 | 20.340 |
| 35th |  Albania |
12.891 | 12.345 | 12.916 | 13.262 | 11.543 | 12.269 | 13.181 | 15.289 |
| 36th |  Malta |
9.604 | 9.289 | 10.056 | 10.582 | 9.801 | 10.341 | 12.543 | 14.873 |
| 37th |  Macedonia |
10.659 | 9.751 | 10.774 | 11.342 | 9.922 | 10.424 | 11.366 | 13.085 |
| 38th |  Moldova |
7.018 | 7.283 | 7.985 | 7.944 | 6.414 | 6.084 | 8.085 | 9.202 |
| 39th |  Montenegro |
4.500 | 4.048 | 4.419 | 4.462 | 4.039 | 4.182 | 4.764 | 5.547 |
| 40th |  San Marino |
2.056 | 1.802 | 1.802 | 1.786 | 1.566 | 1.569 | 1.636 | 1.809 |