Jacob Christensen

If I really wanted to do a decent job, I should trawl through OECD’s and the EU’s statistics. But for now, this is how Italy is placed relative to the other EU countries (and a couple of non-EU countries) when it comes to GDP per capita in PPP in 2007. The numbers are in USD:

Luxembourg – 80500
Malta – 53400
Norway – 53000
USA – 45800
Ireland – 43100
Switzerland – 41100
Iceland – 38800
Netherlands – 38500
Canada – 38400
Denmark – 37400
Sweden – 36500
Belgium – 35300
Finland – 35300
UK – 35100
Germany – 34200
France – 33600
EU – 32300
Italy – 30400
Spain – 30100
Greece – 29200
Slovenia – 27200
Czech Rep – 24200
Portugal – 21700
Estonia – 21100
Slovakia – 20300
Hungary – 19000
Lithuania – 17700
Latvia – 17400
Poland – 16300
Turkey – 12900
Romania – 11400
Bulgaria – 11300

The CIA World Factbook was the Lazy Blogger’s guide to economic data here.

If Tito Boeri is right, it is time for me to brush up my comparative economic statistics:

But Italy is far more vulnerable than the other economies of the Old Continent because it has been stagnating in the last 15 years. Italian income per-capita fell below not only the EU-15, but also the EU-19 average (including also Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, and Poland).

As Wordlizing is all the rage this week, here is my effort: