Stockholm is the sixth richest in the EU

In the latest Eurostat the compilation of regional GDP per capita for the 2017 notes that three-quarters of EU citizens live in areas where the regional GDP is above the average.

the richest are, as usual, London’s inner city and particularly the western part, with a GDP per capita of 209.900 euros, compared with an average of 30,000 in the whole of the EU.

the Closest after London to follow Luxembourg, southern Ireland, Copenhagen and Brysselregionen. Stockholm share the sixth place with the German Hamburg.

boasting the five poorest regions. In the north west of Bulgaria is the GDP per capita is only 4.600 eur, 15 per cent of the EU average.

All the eight regions, of which Sweden is divided in the is over the cut.

Eurostat expect the same in purchasing power standards (PPS) in order to be able to take into account national price differences. On the list falls Stockholm to the 13th place, shared with Copenhagen.

of the London city before the Luxembourg and the south of Ireland. In the bottom joins on the other hand, the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian ocean to the Bulgarian fattigregionerna.

All the eight regions, of which Sweden is divided into is clearly above average in terms of GDP per capita. Pps is seven of eight over the incision, while the Northern mid Sweden, landing just below.