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In 2003 and for the second consecutive year GDP per person in terms of purchasing power parity for the province of Barcelona was higher than the average for the UE-15 countries and it actually exceeded this average by more than 6%. This figure was also 16% higher than the average for the UE-25 countries while it was 19% higher than the average for Spain.
GDP per
capita
(EUROS) |
Provinces
(CITY) |
European
Union=100 |
| 68,546 |
Paris (PARIS) |
315,3 |
|
| 65,311 |
Frankfurt (FRANKFURT) |
300,4 |
|
| 60,342 |
London (LONDON) |
277,6 |
|
| 51,658 |
Brussels (BRUSSELS) |
237,6 |
|
| 50,8 |
Stuttgart (STUTTGART) |
233,7 |
|
| 47,1 |
Munich (MUNICH) |
216,6 |
|
| 42,908 |
Amsterdam (AMSTERDAM) |
197,4 |
|
| 40,042 |
Edinburgh (EDINBURGH) |
184,2 |
|
| 38,719 |
Dublin (DUBLIN) |
178,1 |
|
| 37,158 |
Vienna (VIENNA) |
170,9 |
|
| 35,33 |
Glasgow (GLASGOW) |
162,5 |
|
| 35,137 |
Milan (MILAN) |
161,6 |
|
| 34,568 |
Copenhagen (COPENHAGEN) |
159 |
|
| 34,331 |
Stockholm (STOCKHOLM) |
157,9 |
|
| 33,523 |
Uusima (HELSINKI) |
154,2 |
|
| 30,053 |
Prague (PRAGUE) |
138,2 |
|
| 29,622 |
Rhône (LYON) |
136,3 |
|
| 29,153 |
Rome (ROME) |
134,1 |
|
| 28,786 |
Manchester (MANCHESTER) |
132,4 |
|
| 28,422 |
Rotterdam (ROTTERDAM) |
130,7 |
|
| 28,013 |
Madrid (MADRID) |
128,8 |
|
| 26,664 |
Birmingham (BIRMINGHAM) |
122,6 |
|
| 26,526 |
Budapest (BUDAPEST) |
122 |
|
| 26,443 |
Lisbon (LISBON) |
121,6 |
|
| 25,215 |
Barcelona (BARCELONA) |
116 |
|
| 25,191 |
Vizcaya (BILBAO) |
115,9 |
|
| 23,974 |
Bouches-du-Rhône (MARSEILLE) |
110,3 |
|
| 23,72 |
EUROPEAN UNION 15 |
109,1 |
|
| 21,741 |
EUROPEAN UNION |
100 |
|
| 21,175 |
SPANISH AVERAGE |
97,4 |
|
| 20,862 |
Berlin (BERLIN) |
96 |
|
| 20,123 |
Hérault (MONTPELLIER) |
92,6 |
|
| 20,084 |
Valencia (VALENCIA) |
92,4 |
|
| 18,84 |
Attica (ATHENS) |
86,7 |
|
| 17,904 |
Greater Zagreb (ZAGREB) |
82,4 |
|
| 15,739 |
Riga (RIGA) |
72,4 |
|
| 14,123 |
Vilnius (VILNIUS) |
65 |
|
| 13,245 |
Bucharest (BUCHAREST) |
60,9 |
|
| 12,159 |
Sofia (SOFIA) |
55,9 |
|
| 11,499 |
NEW MEMBER STATES |
52,9 |
|
| 9,805 |
Warszawski (WARSAW) |
45,1 |
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In Purchasing Power Parity.
From a temporary perspective there was a fall in serial dispersion, which might be interpreted as a indication of real convergence. The growth in GDP per person for the province of Barcelona was 7% between 2002 and 2003. This increase was much higher than the average growth for the main European provinces and it was also higher than the growth rate registered in the new Member States.
One consequence of this favourable evolution is the fact that Barcelona is now wealthier than traditionally richer regions such as Bilbao and Marseilles. The data would seem to suggest that Barcelona has entered a process of convergence with the more advanced regions on the continent, now that it has exceeded the European average for this indicator. This fact is also reflected in the growth forecasts included in the studies published by Cambridge Econometrics.
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