{"id":290553,"date":"2026-02-10T13:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290553\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:25:07","slug":"real-gdp-increased-in-most-eu-regions-in-2024-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290553\/","title":{"rendered":"Real GDP increased in most EU regions in 2024 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, real GDP<\/a> increased in 169 EU<\/a> regions compared with 2023, while decreases were registered in 64 regions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The region with the largest growth in real GDP was Yuzhen Tsentralen in Bulgaria, with a 11.6% increase, followed by Eastern and Midland in Ireland (+8.5%), Severen Tsentralen, also in Bulgaria (+8.4%), Malta (a single region at this level of detail; +7.0%) and Mayotte, an overseas region in France (+6.2%).<\/p>\n

The highest fall in real GDP was registered in the Bulgarian region of Yugoiztochen (-12.7%), followed by the Southern region in Ireland (-5.5%) and La R\u00e9union, an overseas region in France (-3.7%). The Northern and Western region in Ireland and K\u00e4rnten in Austria came next, both with a 3.6% decrease.<\/p>\n

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Source dataset: nama_10r_2gvagr<\/a><\/p>\n

This information comes from data on regional national accounts<\/a> published by Eurostat today, based on level 2 of the Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics<\/a> (NUTS 2).<\/p>\n

EU regions with highest GDP per capita: Eastern and Midland in Ireland and Luxembourg\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2024, regional GDP per capita, expressed in terms of purchasing power standards<\/a> (PPS), ranged from 30.1% of the EU average in the French region of Mayotte to 268.3%\u00a0in the Eastern and Midland region in Ireland.<\/p>\n

As in 2023, after Ireland\u2019s Eastern and Midland, the leading regions were Luxembourg (244.6% of the EU average), a single region at this level of detail, and Southern Ireland (216.6%). Hamburg in Germany (196.1%) and Praha in Czechia (191.8%) followed.\u00a0The high GDP per capita in Luxembourg and Praha can be partly explained by a high inflow of commuting workers and by major multinational enterprises domiciled in the regions of Eastern and Midland, and Southern Ireland.<\/p>\n

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Source dataset: nama_10r_2gdp<\/a><\/p>\n

In contrast, in addition to Mayotte (30.1% of the EU average), the regions with the lowest ranking of regional GDP per capita in 2024 included Guyane, another French region (40.8%), Severozapaden in Bulgaria (41.7%), Voreio Aigaio in Greece (42.1%) and Severen Tsentralen also in Bulgaria (43.3%).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, real GDP increased in 169 EU regions compared with 2023, while decreases were registered in 64…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,757,113,69585,6784,61,60,139225],"class_list":["post-290553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-economy-and-finance","tag-gdp","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-reg-gdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}