This Power BI report tracks how public investment shows up in people’s lives across Europe. A Solo Country page turns one nation into a living profile, flag picker, KPI boards, indexed trends, EU-average comparisons, rank badges, and growth cards, so you can spot what’s improving, what’s stalling, and where it sits.
An Europe Comparison page opens the lens: choropleth and ranked bars for 2025 levels and 10-year growth, distribution plots to show the middle and the outliers, plus a correlation tab (e.g., Health Spend → Good Health, GDP PPS → Life Satisfaction) to test hunches fast. Everything is carry-forward aware, unit-savvy (%, per 100k, /10, M, index). The result is an explorable source that surfaces headlines, where investment outpaces outcomes, where small budgets punch above their weight, and which countries quietly break the pattern.
About the Data
This report is built upon publicly available data sourced directly from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Our goal is to provide an accessible and insightful view into the trends shaping life across Europe.
Data Sources:
All data is sourced from the official Eurostat database and covers the period from 2015 to the latest available year. The specific datasets used include:
- Wellbeing & Health:
- Persons being happy in the last 4 weeks
- Share of people with good or very good perceived health
- Long-term care (health) expenditure
- Economy & Employment:
- GDP per capita in Purchasing Power Standards (PPS)
- Total unemployment rate
- Distribution of direct and indirect taxes paid by households
- Society & Culture:
- Police-recorded offences by offence category
- Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes
- General government expenditure by function (COFOG) on Culture & Education
- Country Flags
- Source: Flagpedia.net (via flagcdn.com). Flag images are in the public domain.
- Custom Country Map Images
- Source: The custom map visuals used in this report were designed by the author in Canva.
- Life Satisfaction: /10
- Happiness Rate: %
- Good Health: %
- Cultural Participation: %
- Unemployment Rate: %
- GDP per capita (PPS): idx
- Tax Burden: %
- Health Spend: % of GDP
- Crime Rate: per 100k
- Culture Spend: % of GDP
- Education Spend: % of GDP
- Tourism Visits: M (Millions)
- Population: M (Millions)
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