GDP per capita (PPS) by region compared to the EU average:

Posted by vladgrinch

48 Comments

  1. London and the south east of England are definitely higher based on the most recent figures I could find (I think on both nominal and PPP terms) but obviously I have no idea what is considered a region here.

  2. ImportanceLive9344 on

    Wow Montenegro is doing well… Compared to its neighbors, which is a pretty low bar.

  3. The two countries that have never been members of the EU and likely never will be are completely in the green. What does that tell you?

  4. FragrantSignature796 on

    I doubt a random province in romania has a higher gdp per capita than the capital while in every other country its exactly the capital(and maybe another city or two) that has the highest numbers

  5. Street_Knowledge1277 on

    That’s bullshit. The region below Lisbon is one of the poorest and inhabited in Portugal. There’s a port, but no industry. Just agriculture and a lot of open fields.

  6. Lmao i didnt know the lake of Ijsselmeer had inhabitants let alone under average gdp. Lmao

  7. PlatformZestyclose67 on

    This is GDP per capita, not personal income, of course ‘poor’ remote regions that have profitable industries but only few inhabitants can be green or above average. Although I cannot validate if the data is correct, it looks realistic. I live in Berlin, close-by are two remote sparsely populated regions, however one has a large oil refinery and the other one large coal-fired power plants and a chemical plant. Same applies to the green area around Leipzig.

  8. semifunctionalme on

    All of Norway!! All of it! Don’t come at me with that bullshit that left-wing goverments are bad for the economy. LOOK AT FUCKING NORWAY!!

  9. Bullshit map if I ever have seen one. Doesn’t deserve a single upvote.

    The west of Ireland e.g Connaught is Green yet DUBLIN ( TECH capital of Europe, unbelievable housing crisis, insanely expensive) is red???

    You must be having a laugh. I say that as somebody from Connaught.

  10. One problem that others haven’t mentioned yet is that the PPS rate/Purchasing Power applied to each region of a country is the rate of whole country, not the region itself.

    The problem is that there are big differences in price levels/cost of living in countries, some regions, especially the capital regions often have high price levels, yet they benefit from a high PPS rate because most of the country has lower price levels.

  11. Ah yes, the Netherlands. Where the fish in the Ijselmeer have a higher GDP then the European everage. Except for the ones around the Afsluitdijk. Those are the poor ones.

  12. BarFamiliar5892 on

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen a map that has the west of Ireland wealthier than the east.