Prices, growth, tax, spending, borrowing and debt for the UK beside 15 other economies, every one measured the same way.
INFLATION, 2025
3.4%
2nd highest of 16 countries
The middle of the other 15 countries is 2.3%. How much higher prices were than a year earlier.
ECONOMIC GROWTH, 2025
1.3%
11th highest of 16 countries
The middle of the others is 1.9%. How much more the economy produced, after allowing for prices.
BORROWING, 2025
5.4%
5th highest of 16 countries
As a share of GDP. The middle of the others is 2.7%. It is what the government spent beyond what it raised.
GOVERNMENT DEBT, 2025
102%
6th highest of 16 countries
As a share of a year’s GDP. The middle of the others is 84%. All that the government owes.
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Countries:
How much higher prices are than a year earlier (annual average).It cannot tell you: It is an average for each country, built from different baskets of goods, so it does not say whose cost of living is higher.How much more the economy produced than a year earlier, after allowing for rising prices.It cannot tell you: It shows how fast an economy grows, not how big it is or how the gains are shared out.What the whole government borrowed in the year (spending minus revenue), as a share of GDP. A minus sign means a surplus.It cannot tell you: A country can borrow for good reasons or bad ones. A minus sign means it raised more than it spent.All the government owes (gross debt), as a share of a year's GDP.It cannot tell you: It counts what is owed, not what the government owns, and it says nothing about who the debt is owed to or the interest rate paid.Money the whole government raised, as a share of GDP.It cannot tell you: Countries pay for different things through taxes: some fund health or pensions publicly, others through private insurance.Money the whole government spent, as a share of GDP.It cannot tell you: Countries pay for different things through government: a higher share does not mean better services.People looking for work as a share of everyone in the workforce.It cannot tell you: Countries count unemployment in slightly different ways, and it ignores people who have stopped looking for work.Economic output per person in international dollars, adjusted for local prices.It cannot tell you: It is an average, so it hides how income is shared out, and it is adjusted for prices, not for what people can buy locally.What a country earns from abroad minus what it pays abroad, as a share of GDP.It cannot tell you: A surplus or deficit is neither good nor bad on its own: it shows whether a country earns more from abroad than it pays.
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The United Kingdom is always shown. Euro area and advanced economies are averages: the IMF has no revenue or spending line for them.
Move over the chart, or tap it, to read the figures for that year. The grey band is the IMF’s estimates and forecasts from 2026, not figures that have been reported. They are revised twice a year.
All countries side by side, 2025
Figures are for the whole general government (central, devolved and local together), so countries are counted the same way. Percentages are shares of GDP except inflation, growth and unemployment. Income per head is in international dollars. Select a heading to sort.
Country
Inflation
Growth
Borrowing
Debt
Revenue
Spending
Unemployment
Income per head
Current account
United Kingdom
3.4
1.3
5.4
102
–
–
4.9
$65,525
-3.1
Australia
2.9
2.0
2.8
51
–
–
4.2
$72,132
-2.6
Canada
2.1
1.7
1.8
114
–
–
6.9
$67,013
-0.9
China
0.0
5.0
7.9
99
–
–
5.1
$29,352
3.7
France
0.9
0.9
5.1
116
–
–
7.6
$66,276
-0.4
Germany
2.3
0.2
2.7
63
–
–
3.8
$74,004
4.4
India
2.1
7.6
7.4
84
–
–
4.9
$11,789
-0.9
Ireland
2.1
12.3
-1.5
33
–
–
4.7
$152,632
8.2
Italy
1.6
0.5
3.1
137
–
–
6.1
$63,538
1.2
Japan
3.2
1.2
1.1
206
–
–
2.5
$56,854
4.8
Netherlands
3.0
1.9
1.8
43
–
–
3.9
$84,738
8.8
Poland
3.6
3.6
7.0
59
–
–
3.1
$55,793
-0.7
South Korea
2.1
1.0
1.4
52
–
–
2.8
$65,405
6.6
Spain
2.7
2.8
2.5
100
–
–
10.5
$57,034
2.9
Sweden
2.6
1.5
1.4
35
–
–
8.9
$74,081
6.1
United States
2.7
2.1
6.8
124
–
–
4.3
$89,991
-3.6
Euro area
2.1
1.4
3.0
87
–
–
6.3
–
1.6
Advanced economies
2.5
1.9
4.4
108
–
–
4.7
$74,516
0.1
Why these figures differ from the rest of the site
To compare countries fairly, every country here is measured by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the same way. That is not always how the UK’s own statistics office counts, so the numbers will not match exactly.
What this cannot tell you. A higher or lower number is not good or bad on its own. Countries differ in age, size, what they sell and who pays for health and pensions. Forecasts are the IMF’s best estimate and are revised twice a year.
Debt
On this page: 102% of GDP: the IMF’s measure counts all that the general government owes (gross debt).
Elsewhere on the site: 94% on the Money page: the ONS counts public sector net debt, which takes off money and assets the government holds.
Spending, revenue and borrowing
On this page: – spent, – raised, 5.4% borrowed, as shares of GDP in 2025.
Elsewhere on the site: 44.3% spent, 39.4% raised and 4.9% borrowed in 2025-26 on the Money page. Different years: the IMF counts calendar years, the Treasury the year to April.
Inflation
On this page: 3.4%: the average over the whole of 2025.
Elsewhere on the site: 3.1% on the Inflation page: the latest monthly yearly rate, so it moves with each release.