Countries

These sixteen live country pages are grouped by monetary regime. This is an index of pages already on the site, not a live feed. What €100 still buys in 2026 is ranked below from the same HICP snapshot.

What €100 still buys in 2026

Each bar is that country's HICP purchasing power versus 2015, from the same snapshot as the country pages. Not a live feed. Not a picture of a real banknote. Euro area is a reference from the same snapshot method, not a live feed, not a seventeenth country page.

    Source: Eurostat HICP snapshot (hicp-countries.json and hicp-ea.json), not a live feed. Methodology.

    Euro

    Direct euro members. No national-currency buffer. ECB policy lands in full.

    Euro members: debt % of GDP and purchasing-power loss since 2015. Committed snapshot.
    Country Debt % of GDP PP loss since 2015
    Austria83.3%29.7%
    Belgium109.1%27.9%
    Finland89.7%19.7%
    France117.5%21.0%
    Germany64.4%25.7%
    Greece143.5%20.9%
    Ireland37.0%20.0%
    Italy138.9%21.2%
    Netherlands43.8%27.8%
    Portugal91.0%21.6%
    Spain101.6%23.1%

    Pegged to euro

    Danish krone, tightly pegged to the euro. Debt is Maastricht, not the narrower Nationalbanken central-government figure.

    Pegged to euro: debt % of GDP and purchasing-power loss since 2015. Committed snapshot.
    Country Debt % of GDP PP loss since 2015
    Denmark26.8%18.3%

    Own currency

    Independent monetary policy. Still not hard money.

    Own currency: debt % of GDP and purchasing-power loss since 2015. Committed snapshot.
    Country Debt % of GDP PP loss since 2015
    Hungary77.7%43.5%
    Poland61.6%36.6%
    Romania60.1%41.4%
    Sweden34.9%25.0%

    Debt: Eurostat Q1 2026 Maastricht, except France (INSEE, same Maastricht definition). Purchasing-power loss: 100 minus the latest HICP PP point in the committed snapshot, as of July 2026 (2026 = Jan–Jul). Not a live feed. Methodology.

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