Eurospending tracks the public finances of the EU and the story of the euro, using only official figures from Eurostat, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Here is how the site is laid out.
The map and country rankings
The home page shows a map of Europe coloured by a chosen metric, and below it a sortable list of every country. Pick a metric to re-rank the list and see who is doing well and who is under strain.
Country pages
Each country has its own page with a snapshot of headline numbers and charts going back years — debt, deficit, growth, inflation, unemployment and more.
Compare
The comparison tool puts several countries on one chart for a single metric, so you can see divergence over time.
The euro
The euro page follows monetary policy and the currency itself: ECB interest rates, the central-bank balance sheet, money supply, exchange rates and inflation.
Data and blog
Every series can be downloaded from the data page. Throughout the site you will see small information links next to each metric — they bring you to the plain-English explainer for that number, all collected here in the blog.