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Eurostat: Romania and Bulgaria have lowest GDP per capita in EU in 2010 too
Romania and Bulgaria in 2010 had a GDP per capita expressed in the purchasing power parity (PPS) that was lower by about 55 percent than the average in the European Union (EU), according to a preliminary estimate published by the European statistics office EUROSTAT on Tuesday.
The value of the gross domestic product per capita expressed in the purchasing power parity in Romania was 45 percent of the EU average in 2010, but Romania goes on being on the last but one place in the EU, ahead of Bulgaria, where the value of the GDP per capita expressed in the PPS was 43 percent of the EU average.
When compared with 2009, the GDP per capita expressed in the purchasing power parity in Romania was 46 percent of the EU average and in Bulgaria it was 44 percent of the EU average.