Eurostat: Four Of The EU’s Twenty Poorest Regions Are In Hungary

  • 27 May 2015 9:00 AM
Eurostat: Four Of The EU’s Twenty Poorest Regions Are In Hungary
Four Hungarian regions have been included on a list of the EU’s twenty poorest regions, compiled by Eurostat on the basis of a comparison of regions’ GDP per capita on 2013 price levels to the EU-28 average for that year. The results show that Central London is the most prosperous region, with its Gross Domestic Product amounting to 325 per cent of the EU average.

With its GDP making up only 30 per cent of the EU average, Northwestern Bulgaria was revealed to be the EU’s poorest region. (Technically, the French overseas territory of Mayotte, between the African continent and Madagascar, is the poorest.)

Northern Hungary, with its per capita Gross Domestic Product amounting to fourty per cent of the EU’s average GDP, was named the community’s eighth poorest region, while the Northern Great Plain is eleventh on the list and the twelfth position is shared by Southern Transdanubia and the Southern Great Plain.

Not taking the French overseas territory of Mayotte into account, the twenty poorest regions are all situated in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, but all of the worst-off fifteen territories are in the latter three countries.

Source: hungarytoday.hu

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