{"id":448677,"date":"2026-03-25T16:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/03\/25\/media-ue-del-pil-pro-capite-a-quasi-42-mila-euro-ma-17-paesi-tra-cui-litalia-sono-sotto\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:47:49","slug":"the-eu-average-for-per-capita-gdp-stands-at-almost-e42000-but-17-countries-including-italy-are-below-this-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/03\/25\/the-eu-average-for-per-capita-gdp-stands-at-almost-e42000-but-17-countries-including-italy-are-below-this-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU average for per capita GDP stands at almost \u20ac42,000, but 17 countries, including Italy, are below this figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 A multi-speed Europe: in 2025, the European Union\u2019s average gross domestic product (GDP) per capita\u2014expressed in purchasing power parity to account for differences in price levels\u2014stood at around \u20ac41,600, and <strong>only ten out of twenty-seven Member States exceeded this figure<\/strong>. This group of countries represents 34 per cent of the total EU population, effectively one in three citizens. More specifically, among the member states, the range of per capita GDP varied from 68 per cent of the EU average in Greece and Bulgaria to 239 per cent in Luxembourg. These are the figures from <strong>Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union<\/strong>, and they speak for themselves: there are still \u201csubstantial differences\u201d between the levels of wealth in EU countries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the European wealth pyramid stands <strong>Luxembourg<\/strong>, which in 2025 recorded a per capita GDP\u2014measured in purchasing power parity (PPP)\u2014equal to <strong>239 per cent<\/strong> of the European Union average. Looking instead at nominal GDP per capita, the figure stands at 139 per cent of the EU average. This record reflects a particular structure of the national labour market: <strong>a very high proportion of foreign workers and cross-border commuters<\/strong> contributes substantially to the country\u2019s wealth creation despite not being part of the resident population. Consequently, whilst their work increases the overall value of Luxembourg\u2019s GDP, their expenditure on daily consumption is recorded in their countries of origin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just behind Luxembourg, <strong>Ireland<\/strong> stands out with a PPP per capita GDP of <strong>237 per cent of the European average<\/strong>. In nominal terms, however, the figure stands at 137 per cent. Ireland\u2019s high level of GDP per capita is partly attributable to the strong presence of <strong>large multinational companies<\/strong> that hold intellectual property rights in the country, which help to boost GDP; however, a significant proportion of the income generated by this production is then transferred to the ultimate owners of the companies, who are based abroad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next on the list of <strong>10 countries with a value above the European average<\/strong> are the <strong>Netherlands and Denmark<\/strong> (both with a GDP per capita (PPP) exceeding 20 per cent of the average), <strong>Austria<\/strong>, <strong>Germany<\/strong>, <strong>Belgium<\/strong>, <strong>Sweden<\/strong>, <strong>Malta<\/strong>, and <strong>Finland<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the other Member States, however, fall <strong>within a relatively narrow range<\/strong>: France, Cyprus, Italy (96 per cent PPP), the Czech Republic, Spain, and Slovenia are within <strong>10 per cent below the EU average<\/strong>, whilst Lithuania, Portugal, and Poland lag behind by around 10\u201320 per cent.&nbsp;The <strong>lowest levels <\/strong>of GDP per capita (PPP) were recorded in <strong>Bulgaria<\/strong> and <strong>Greece<\/strong>, at 32 per cent below the EU average, and in <strong>Latvia<\/strong>, at 29 per cent below the EU average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurostat data reveal disparities in purchasing power across the EU-27: whilst Luxembourg and Ireland top the statistics\u2014influenced by multinational companies and cross-border worker flows\u2014countries such as Bulgaria and Greece still lag far behind the standards of living enjoyed by their fellow European partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7901,"featured_media":448633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26180,26633,33525,33526,33394],"class_list":["post-448677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-pills","tag-pil-pro-capite","tag-pil-pro-capite-parita-potere-dacquisto","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448678,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448677\/revisions\/448678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}