Cumulative real GDP growth since the Maastricht Treaty

Index, 1992 = 100

Real household consumption per capita

Constant PPP-adjusted 2021 USD

Aggregate market capitalization, top 50 companies

Trillions of current USD

Dealing with government

How founders rate the experience by countryOverall European-company mean: 5.41 = extremely difficult; 10 = extremely straightforward

Would founders incorporate in the same country again?

Share incorporated in each country who would base a new company there today

Monthly payment volume of AI businesses on Stripe

By company HQ country

Data centre capacity by country

Gigawatts

Stripe Economic Domicile Migration Index

Migrations per 10,000 KYU entitiesSeasonally-adjusted, 3-month moving average

Nonbank credit to the private sector

Trillions of current USD

What made founding hard

Founders scoring a European country 8 or below could select up to three sources of difficulty (or none)Percent

Internal-market cross-region share of pays-ins volume

Percent of gross captured PIV

Restructuring costs per employee, selected countries

Months of employee compensation

Stablecoin circulating supply by currency peg, 2020–2025

Billions of current USD