EU25: One in seven regions with over 125 per cent of GDP average

In 2002 the per capita GDP, measured in purchasing power standards, in the 254 NUTS-2 regions of the EU25 ranged from 32 per cent of the EU25 average in the Polish region of Lubelskie to 315 per cent in Inner London in the UK. This is according to a current report from Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. The three regions with the highest per capita GDP were Inner London (315 per cent), Bruxelles-Capital in Belgium (234 per cent) and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (213 per cent). Of the 37 regions where the per capita GDP exceeded the 125-per-cent barrier, seven were in the UK, six in Germany and Italy respectively, four each in the Netherlands and Austria, two each in Belgium and Finland and one each in the Czech Republic, Spain, France, Ireland, Sweden and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The only region in the new member states was Prague in the Czech Republic (153 per cent). The five regions at the lower end of the range are all in Poland. And the lowest value among the old member states was for Dytiki Ellada in Greece (58 per cent).