Major European cities by GDP (PPP) per capita

by tobias_681

31 comments
  1. Did anyone see Dusseldorf coming? I would’ve thought Frankfurt would come out on top in Germany, with all their bankers.

  2. “1m + population cities”
    More like metropolitan areas. A lot of these cities are way smaller

  3. 2015? So this data is like 10 years old, and completely irrelevant?

  4. Wow. Warsaw is indeed a Phoenix city. 80 years ago razed to the ground by the Germans and today GDP per capita so much higher than Berlin.

  5. Where is Bucharest? From what I know it surpassed Budapest and are in close to Barcelona .

  6. I’m quite skeptic of a city’s GDP per capita as it’s heavily influenced by commuter flows. Basically dividing the production of 2M workers by 1M residents.

    Average wages are not susceptible to commuters the same way. They are a much more reliable indicator of a city’s economy. (Don’t get me wrong, GDP per capita still means a lot for a country, just not for a city).

  7. This completes disqualifies Luxembourg (the city or the country really). Perhaps we should expand the metric?

  8. GDP of a city is either hard to calculate or somewhat misleading. Do you take into account the profit of companies that are headquartered there? What about the income and spending of people that don’t live there, but commute there.

    So many unknowns that make it a pretty useless number, IMO.

  9. So… once you leave London, most other UK cities may as well be part of the former Eastern Bloc. Is that right?

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