Baltics (especially Estonia and Lithuania) are approaching Scandinavian levels of GDP/capita (PPP)

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  1. I don’t really see it:

    – Norway – 82,655
    – Denmark – 73,386
    – Sweden – 65,842
    – Lithuania – 49,266
    – Estonia – 46,385

    For reference:

    – Finland – 60,897

    GDP (PPP) per capita is of course heavily dependent on local prices and it skews the nominal GDP per capita list quite a bit.

  2. Sweden gains 100k new people every year. Estonia loses thousands per year. Per capita favours them more.

  3. Divising Finland like this doesn’t make any sense. It would be lot more informative if there would be more regions

  4. What are you doing Romanians, creating a ” The Hunger Games” type of country where 12 Districts work for “The Capitol”?

  5. Finland is helping by falling backward (if you include Finland as “Scandinavian” here).

  6. Literally every country has a deep blue in his capital region or amministrative district except Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia and Greece… but Italy still has got some blue 🫶🏻

    Edit: I am well aware of the reasons that cause that. Also I was a bit joking on my country…

  7. Damn, the split in Italy or eastern Europe in general is still so clearly visible.

    Also, the graph and numbers suggest that the baltics are still quite a bit away from the Nordic countries.

  8. These schemes have no faith in the quality of life of real people: GDP only represents the amount of money that has passed through a country and indicates nothing but the “global turnover” of a state or region. I am Italian, and having traveled all over Italy for a long time for work, I know for sure that in regions such as Puglia and Campania life is better than in Lombardy, both for the actual cost of living and the quality of the air, of the food and the character of the people.

  9. Why aren’t you investing in Eastern Poland?

    One day your kids will be asking you why you didn’t invest in Eastern Poland. Better do it today!

  10. Looks like the more central/connected the country in the EU the bigger the evonomic benefit, all else being equal. Schengen for Bulgaria and Romania would probably be a giant shot in the arm for the whole eastern side, likewise for getting in the western Balkan countries.

  11. The capitals have already surpassed that. Bucharest’s GDP PPP per capita is higher than that of Oslo, Copenhagen, London or Zurich. Same goes for Bratislava and Prague and soon Budapest, Vilnius and Warsaw as well. Which goes to show just how shitty and useless GDP PPP per capita is as a metric.

  12. After seeing this map, can we finally end the myth of the so damn rich Luxembourg?

    There are plenty of regions which have a GDP per capita as ours, with the difference that our is artificial that high, because of 200k cross-border commuters.

    We have the highest working poor rate in all of EU that should say enough.

  13. Kind of shocked to see Southern Italy and Greece all orange. Really stark gap between Western/Central Europe against Eastern/Southern Europe.

  14. I expected France and Nordics states (in particular Norway) to be higher. Northern Italy is doing better than I thought also.

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