The Warsaw capital region is among the ten richest regions in the European Union, according to recently published Eurostat data. Together with the Polish capital only one other city from our part of Europe is among the richest ten, namely Prague in Czech Republic.

In the Warsaw region the GDP (according to purchasing power parity) is among the highest in the entire EU. Warsaw, together with the surrounding counties, has a GDP per capita of 167 percent of the EU average. This is the result of recently published data by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, for the year 2020. They were analyzed by the Polish Economic Institute (PIE).

The situation is different if we consider Mazovia as a whole – for the entire voivodeship the value of GDP per capita is already higher by almost a quarter than the EU average. And in the part of Mazovia outside of Warsaw, the GDP per capita is only 64 percent of the average.

According to PIE, among the 10 regions with the highest value of the indicator, most of them are metropolitan areas (such as Brussels Capital Region, Prague or Hovedstaden in Denmark). The group is rounded out by regions with strong urban centers (such as Upper Bavaria with Munich) or that benefit from their geographic location on trade routes – such as Hamburg. The poorest areas of continental Europe, on the other hand, are located in the south – these are primarily regions of Bulgaria (4 of the five poorest regions in the EU are in this country), as well as Greece and Croatia.

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