The gap between the richest and poorest EU regions is twenty-fold

There were huge differences between the in per capita gross domestic product of the 276 regions of the EU Member States in 2015 – according to data of the European Union’s statistical office (Eurostat).

The purchasing power parity per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in the poorest area (Bulgaria’s Severozapaden region) amounted to 29 percent of the EU average, while in the richest area, in the Inner London-West UK region, this ratio stood at 580 percent. (MTI)