EU GDP per inhabitant varies from 38% to 276%
- GDP per inhabitant varied from 40% to 253% across the EU27
- Malta’s purchasing power standard 24% less than EU average
- Malta’s purchasing power is 77% of EU average
- GDP per inhabitant in 2006 ranged from 25% of the EU27 average to 336%
- GDP per inhabitant in 2007 ranged from 26% of the EU27
- The Eurostat Yearbook 2008 official statistics
- Malta most expensive country in EU for consumer electronics
- Malta one of the worst countries in Europe for waste generation and recycling
- In 2006, about three million foreign immigrants settled in a country in the EU27
- EU statistics for International Women’s Day
- Total inland freight transport increases by 5 per cent in EU27
- 17% of EU27 population at risk of poverty
- Maltese youth lowest in EU on making cultural visits
- Foreign citizens made up 6% of the EU27 population in 2008
- Half a billion inhabitants in the EU27 by January 1st, 329 million in the euro area
Based on first preliminary estimates for 2007, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per inhabitant expressed in Purchasing Power Standards (PPS) varied from 38% to 276% of the average across the EU27 Member States.
GDP per inhabitant was around the EU27 average in 2007 in Spain, Italy, Greece and Cyprus. Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Finland, the United Kingdom, Germany and France were between 10% and 30% above the average, while the highest levels of GDP per inhabitant in the EU were registered in Luxembourg, Ireland and the Netherlands.
Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Malta, Portugal and Estonia were between 10% and 30% lower than the EU27 average. Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland were between 30% and 50% lower, while both Romania and Bulgaria were about 60 percent below the EU27 average.
These figures for GDP per inhabitant, expressed in PPS, are published by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. They cover the 27 EU Member States, the three candidate countries, three EFTA countries and two Western Balkan countries. 
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