Based on first preliminary estimates for 2006, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per inhabitant expressed in Purchasing Power Standards (PPS), varied from 37% to 280% of the average across the EU27 Member States.



GDP per inhabitant in Luxembourg was more than two-and-a-half times the EU27 average in 2006. Ireland, the Netherlands, Austria and Denmark were between 25% and 45% above this average, while Belgium, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Finland, Germany and France were between 10% and 25% above. Italy and Spain were slightly above the EU27 average.

Cyprus, Greece and Slovenia were between 5% and 15% below average, while the Czech Republic, Malta and Portugal were between 20% and 25% below. Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland were between 30% and 50% below the EU27 average, while the two new Member States, Romania and Bulgaria, were more than 60% below the average.