{"id":810724,"date":"2026-10-22T20:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/810724\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:50:33","slug":"which-eu-regions-gdp-exceeded-their-pre-pandemic-levels-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/810724\/","title":{"rendered":"Which EU regions\u2019 GDP exceeded their pre-pandemic levels? – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between 2019, the last pre-COVID-19 year, and 2024, the EU<\/a>\u2019s GDP<\/a> grew by 5.6% overall in real terms. However, developments across the 244 regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics<\/a> (NUTS 2) with available data varied considerably. A total of 197 regions grew, with higher levels of economic activity in 2024 than in 2019. By contrast, GDP fell in 46 regions and remained unchanged in 1 region, the Spanish region of Ciudad de Ceuta.<\/p>\n

The most robust GDP growth was recorded in the Irish capital region of Eastern and Midland, which also had the highest GDP per inhabitant in 2024, as GDP rose 38.0% between 2019 and 2024. The other 2 Irish regions also saw very high increases: Northern and Western up 36.4% (the 2nd highest in the EU) and Southern up 26.0% (6th highest). Outside of Ireland, the highest growth rates were in:<\/p>\n

\tthe Romanian capital region of Bucure\u015fti-Ilfov (up 33.0%);
\n\tMalta (up 32.9%);
\n\tthe French outermost region of Mayotte (up 32.1%).<\/p>\n

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

Almost all of the EU\u2019s capital regions recorded an expansion in economic activity during the period under consideration, with Helsinki-Uusimaa in Finland being the only exception; its GDP fell 1.9% in real terms.<\/p>\n

The Bulgarian region of Yugoiztochen registered the largest contraction in economic activity between 2019 and 2024, with GDP decreasing by 20.5%. In 4 other regions, there were double-digit contractions:<\/p>\n

\tDytiki Makedonia (Greece), with -18.0%;
\n\tGroningen (the Netherlands), with -14.0%;
\n\tAnd Sud-Muntenia and Sud-Vest Oltenia (both Romania), with -13.5% and -11.3%, respectively.<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more about economy statistics in EU regions?<\/p>\n

You can explore the economy sections in the Eurostat regional yearbook \u2013 2026 edition<\/a> and in the interactive publication Regions in Europe<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between 2019, the last pre-COVID-19 year, and 2024, the EU\u2019s GDP grew by 5.6% overall in real terms.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,4535,1294,24959,2184,44572,154469,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-810724","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-reg","tag-reg-gdp","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}