EU business investment rate hit 21.8% low in Q4 2025
In the fourth quarter of 2025, the EU business investment rate reached 21.8%, the lowest point since the third quarter of 2015.
Since 2014, the EU’s non-financial corporation investment rate has shown 2 clear trends, with notable spikes. Between 2014 and 2018, the investment rate rose steadily from 22% to nearly 24%. Yet from 2021 onwards, it has fallen almost continuously, hitting 21.8% in the fourth quarter of 2025. The sharp increases in the second quarter of 2015, 2017 and 2019, followed by a similar trend in the fourth quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020, were largely due to surges in intellectual property imports of certain countries, driven by globalisation dynamics.
Highest EU business investment rate in Hungary, lowest in Luxembourg
At the national level, the latest available data is for 2024, when the highest EU business investment rates were recorded in Hungary (28.4%), Croatia (28.3%), Czechia (27.6%), Belgium (27.0%) and Sweden (26.9%). On the other hand, the lowest rates were in Luxembourg (15.9%), Ireland and Cyprus (both 16.0%), the Netherlands (16.7%) and Malta (16.8%).
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EU business investment rate hit 21.8% low in Q4 2025
30.04.2026.18:03
In the fourth quarter of 2025, the EU business investment rate reached 21.8%, the lowest point since the third quarter of 2015.
Since 2014, the EU’s non-financial corporation investment rate has shown 2 clear trends, with notable spikes. Between 2014 and 2018, the investment rate rose steadily from 22% to nearly 24%. Yet from 2021 onwards, it has fallen almost continuously, hitting 21.8% in the fourth quarter of 2025. The sharp increases in the second quarter of 2015, 2017 and 2019, followed by a similar trend in the fourth quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020, were largely due to surges in intellectual property imports of certain countries, driven by globalisation dynamics.
Highest EU business investment rate in Hungary, lowest in Luxembourg
At the national level, the latest available data is for 2024, when the highest EU business investment rates were recorded in Hungary (28.4%), Croatia (28.3%), Czechia (27.6%), Belgium (27.0%) and Sweden (26.9%). On the other hand, the lowest rates were in Luxembourg (15.9%), Ireland and Cyprus (both 16.0%), the Netherlands (16.7%) and Malta (16.8%).
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