Which is the most prosperous city/region in the EU ?

[Grumpy]

Well I would love to know , tell me

[nito]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

Well I would love to know , tell me

Inner London according to Eurostat.

[crisp444]

Here is the list of all the provinces/states/regions and their comparison with the EU average, which is set at 100. Inner London is 277.6, making it the highest.

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/por...inv/sdi_ed1130

[Minato Ku]

Why it is inner London normaly It should be Greater London
(Inner London is not a region and not a city).

Why for France it is Ile de France and not Paris (Paris is a city and a departement)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_London

[Jonas]

Indeed, I don't see base on which Inner London is considered as a region (why not Greater London or even London metropolitan area?). Comparison of a few boroughs in London ("Inner London") against an entire chunk of some other countries (and not such small ones) seems rather sensless and unprofessional.

[Metropolitan]

Well, if you determine the GDP of the Opera district in Paris, the banking district in Frankfurt or the City in London, you would get sky-rocketing figures, but rather pointless.

Anyway, even outside the GDP of an overall region or province, I guess it would be interesting to know the regions in Europe having the highest growth currently. Actually, I don't have very recent figures about this.

[Jonas]

Top growers countrywise for the last few years in Europe were Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with rates between 7 and 12 per cent annually and the banks don't seem to be considering to change their outlooks for the next 2-3 years for these countries. So naturally regions of the capital cities (where most of the growth occurs there) should be the fastest growing ones at rates of 10 to 15 per cent per annum.

[Grumpy]

Originally Posted by crisp444

Here is the list of all the provinces/states/regions and their comparison with the EU average, which is set at 100. Inner London is 277.6, making it the highest.

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/por...inv/sdi_ed1130

Great link, thanks

[villelumiere]

It's probably the Republic of ireland isn't it. Their per capita GDP is something staggering after 15 years of celtic Tiger growth.

[SSLL]

I think Luxembourg is higher!

[brisavoine]

What do you mean exactly by "most prosperous"? If you mean the city with the highest GDP per capita, there was a study done by the GEMACA II research group a few years ago. This is a partnership of the London School of Economics, the Greater Paris Institute for Urban Planning and Development, the State and City's Development Research Institute of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Dublin Institute of Technology. They compared metropolitan areas (not just cities proper) across northwestern Europe, which is the richest part of Europe.

Here are the GDP per capita in 1999 for the northwestern European metropolitan areas:
- Paris metro area: 33,630 euros per inhabitant
- Rhine-Main metro area (Frankfurt, Mainz, Wiesbaden): 32,970
- Dublin metro area: 31,920
- London metro area: 30,950
- Randstad metro area (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht): 26,550
- Brussels metro area: 26275
- Rhine-Ruhr metro area (Cologne, Düsseldorf, Essen, etc.): 25,850
- Manchester metro area: 19,440
- Birmingham metro area: 18,210
- Liverpool metro area: 16,500

[Mercutio]

^ 1999 is very out of date now. Shifting exchange rates alone will have shifted those GDP figures all over the place - and then there are the different growth rates in these cities over the last 8 years.

[Marcu]

GDP Per Capita in USD

1 Bermuda $ 69,900 2004 est.
2 Luxembourg $ 68,800 2006 est.
3 Equatorial Guinea $ 50,200 2005 est.
4 United Arab Emirates $ 49,700 2006 est.
5 Norway $ 47,800 2006 est.
6 Guernsey $ 44,600 2005
7 Cayman Islands $ 43,800 2004 est.
8 Ireland $ 43,600 2006 est.
9 United States $ 43,500 2006 est.
10 Jersey $ 40,000 2003 est.

EU as a whole is at $ 29,300

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications.../2004rank.html

[safta20]

I thought the german cities had the highest GDP/capita in Europe. Look at these numbers:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=233922005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4781048.stm

[Mercutio]

^ Dodgy statistics. German cities are often defined only as the historic city centre. The GDP stats therefore account for all the economic output generated in the city centre by commuters who actually reside outside the official city limits. Luxembourg's national GDP is inflated in exactly the same way - many of the workers who generate Luxembourg's economic output actually live over the border in Germany or France. To get a more accurate picture you need to average GDP per capita of both the city centre and the surrounding areas.

[R@ptor]

What's the purpose of this thread other than that it creates the usual London vs. Paris flame war ???

[JEH-NYC]

Originally Posted by R@ptor

What's the purpose of this thread other than that it creates the usual London vs. Paris flame war ???

That and to educate people like me that had never heard of "Equatorial Guinea", much less reckoned it to be a wealthy state (#3 on Marcu's CIA list).

[Minato Ku]

I found this in Wikipedia

2 in TOP 3 are in France in GDP per capita in NUTS-2 region




http://ec.europa.eu/comm/eurostat/ra....cfm?list=nuts

[brisavoine]

Originally Posted by Mercutio

^ 1999 is very out of date now. Shifting exchange rates alone will have shifted those GDP figures all over the place - and then there are the different growth rates in these cities over the last 8 years.

We're comparing European cities here which have the common euro currency, so there are no shifting exchange rates. Only the English cities on the list have a different currency, the sterling pound, but the exchange rate of the sterling pound vs. the euro is almost exactly the same as in 1999. As for different growth rates over the last 8 years, it would have altered the ranking, but not to the point where it's completely different. Dublin would be further up now I reckon, but for other cities I think they would pretty much rank the same.

[Marcu]

Originally Posted by JEH-NYC

That and to educate people like me that had never heard of "Equatorial Guinea", much less reckoned it to be a wealthy state (#3 on Marcu's CIA list).

It's a tax shelter. Same reason Bermuda is up there.