Eurostat publishes data on GDP of EU, Western Balkan states

TIRANA, Dec. 16؅urostat published Wednesday data on the GDP of 27 EU member-states, three EFTA countries (Norway, Switzerland and Iceland), candidate countries (Macedonia, Croatia and Turkey) and four Western Balkan states (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Albania).
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per inhabitant in Macedonia, expressed in purchasing power standards, was 33 percent of the EU average in 2008.
Bosnia & Herzegovina (31%) and Albania (26%) are the countries with lower indicators than Macedonia.
Serbian GDP per inhabitant was 36 percent the EU average, whereas Montenegro (43%) is better than the last of the EU member-states, Bulgaria with 41 percent.
Pertaining to the EU candidate-countries, Croatia’s GDP amounts to 63 percent, whereas Turkey’s 46 percent the EU average.
Luxembourg heads the list with more than two and a half times the EU27 average (276%), while Ireland (135%) and the Netherlands (134%) recorded levels about one third above average.
Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, the United Kingdom and Belgium were between 15% and 25% above the EU average.
France, Spain and Italy registered GDP per inhabitant between 0% and 10% above the EU average, while Cyprus, Greece and Slovenia were between 0% and 10% below the average.
The Czech Republic, Malta, Portugal, and Slovakia were between 20% and 30% lower than the EU average. Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland were between 30% and 50% lower, while Romania and Bulgaria were between 50% and 60% below the EU average.
Moreover, EFTA countries Norway (191%), Switzerland (141%) and Iceland (121%) are all above the EU average.