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Bulgaria's North West Region Is Poorest in EU - Eurostat

Luxembourg, March 30 (BTA) - In 2015, regional GDP per capita, expressed in terms of purchasing power standards, ranged from slightly less than 30 per cent of the European Union (EU) average in the Bulgarian North West Region to 580 per cent of the average in Inner London - West in the United Kingdomm, Eurostat said.

The leading regions in the ranking of regional GDP per capita in 2015, after Inner London - West in the United Kingdom (580 per cent of the average), were the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (264 per cent), Hamburg in Germany (206 per cent) Bruxelles/Brussel in Belgium (205 per cent) and Bratislava in Slovakia (188 per cent).

After North West in Bulgaria (29 per cent of the average), the lowest regions in the ranking were Mayotte in France (32 per cent), North Central and South Central in Bulgaria (both 33 per cent) and Nord-Est in Romania (34 per cent). Among the 19 regions with GDP per capita below 50 per cent of the EU average, five were in Bulgaria, four each in Hungary and Poland, three in Romania, two in Greece and one in France.