A total of 11 Greek regions ranked below 75 pct of the EU-28 average per capita rate in 2013, Eurostat said on Thursday. The EU executive’s statistics agency, in a report released here, said that the country’s average per capital Gross Domestic Product (in purchasing power terms) was at 73 pct of the EU average. Only Attica (98 pct) and Southern Aegean (76 pct) surpassed the 75 pct average rate.
On the other hand, Eastern Macedonia-Thrace (52 pct), Epirus (55 pct), Thessaly (56 pct), Central Macedonia, Western Greece and Northern Aegean (57 pct), the Peloponnese (60 pct), Western Macedonia and Central Greece (62 pc), Crete (63 pct) and the Ionian Islands (68 pct) recorded the lowest rates.
The leading regions in the ranking of regional GDP per capita in 2013, after Inner London in the United Kingdom (325 pct of the average), were the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (258 pct), Brussels in Belgium (207 pct), Hamburg in Germany (195 pct), Groningen in the Netherlands (187 pct), Bratislava in Slovakia (184 pct), Stockholm in Sweden (179 pct), Île de France in France (175 pct) and Prague in the Czech Republic (173 pct).
After Mayotte, an overseas island department of France in the Indian Ocean (27 pct), the lowest regions in the ranking were all in Bulgaria and Romania: Severozapaden (30 pct), Severen Tsentralen (31 pct) and Yuzhen Tsentralen (32 pct) in Bulgaria and Nord-Est in Romania (34 pct).
(source: ana-mpa)
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