GDP per capita varied by more than six to one across the EU in 2010: …

Consumption and price levels differed by more than three to one

As in previous years, Bulgaria remains the country with the lowest level of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita among all EU Member States, at less than half the EU average. The Netherlands was 33 percent above that average, surpassed only by Luxembourg. Levels of Actual Individual Consumption (AIC) were somewhat more homogeneous, but still showed very substantial differences across EU Member States. The country with the highest price level remains Denmark.

Full report Issue number 64/2011 via Eurostat Statistics in focus (PDF 8pp)

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