GDP per capita growth in EU-15, 2015-2020

17 comments
  1. Ireland has grown so much but the country is SO expensive it’s unbelievable, a lot of every day food such as bread, eggs etc is 2-3 times more expensive than Netherlands or Germany etc, at least in Dublin where I stayed. Rents are also out of control. I don’t know how correlated GDP per capita and price increase are, but this seems to be a downside

  2. Dumb comparison on so many levels

    – why take a pandemic snapshot (ie 2020 numerator), when we have had 2021 GDP levels for over 4 months now?
    – GDP per capita is a ridiculous measure due to how it penalises states with younger populations and flatters those with older populations. It would be far more insightful to use GDP divided by the working age population, since, ya know, it’s those people who are responsible for output
    – any chart that uses Irish GDP and compares that with other countries already loses credibility. Same goes for Luxembourg and other states where the tax haven industry is significant
    – the timescale seems arbitrary. Why start in 2015 when the eurocrisisis was more or less over? This glosses over the appalling growth from 2011 until 2013 that was experienced by many of the euro area countries
    – lastly, I can’t be bothered to look for the numbers right now, but I know that real GDP growth in the UK was broadly in line with that of France for 2016-2019. And I know that France’s fall in GDP in 2020 wasn’t much better than the UK’s (especially when you account for the methodological differences). I suspect that if I actually tried to recreate this myself, I’d find all sorts of glaring inconsistencies

  3. Shitty map leaving out countries that have been members for around 20 years. Despite showing a timeframe while they were already members. What’s the purpose of making maps like that?

  4. Yes. 2020 was the year that everything closed.

    It could be interesting to have an overlap of this graphic with how much dependent are countries on tourism. That could make it more insightful.

Leave a Reply