Eurostat
Among the most economically backward regions in the EU, one in six is in Hungary. Only Bulgaria, Greece and Poland are worse off in this comparison.
Of Hungary’s seven statistical regions, four are considered poor by EU standards. In a comparison of GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power, the regions of Northern Hungary and Northern Plain only achieved 50% of the EU27 standard in 2022. Things are hardly better in Southern Transdanubia (52%), and with 55% of the normal level of development, the Southern Plain is among the 25 poorest regions in the Community. The other regions away from the capital are not necessarily covered in wealth either: Pest County was measured by Eurostat at 65% of the standard value for 2022, Western Transdanubia reached 68%, Central Transdanubia 71%. Budapest, meanwhile, is one of the richest regions in the EU with 158%.
At the country level, Bulgaria brings up the rear with only 62.1% of the EU standard, Greece with 67.3% and Slovakia with 71.1%. In this calculation, Hungary once once more ranks ahead of Romania (76.2% vs. 75.3%), but well behind Portugal (78.8%). In the region, Croatia (72.9%) performs worse, but Poland (79.5%) performs significantly better. The sovereign leaders from the former Eastern Bloc are the Czech Republic (90.5%), Slovenia (90.0%) and Lithuania (89.3%), which was able to clearly push its Baltic “neighbour” Estonia (85.1%) off the winners’ podium .
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