Turkey's national income per capita closer to EU's

The difference between Turkey and the EU is diminishing in terms of national income per capita.

According to EuroStat, Turkey's national income per capita in 2010 reached 48 percent of the EU's average.

It was 36 percent of EU's in 2002.

Turkey, which has grown faster than the EU since that date, increased this ratio to 40 percent in 2004, 44 percent in 2006 and 47 percent in 2008.

Turkey left behind two EU countries, Bulgaria (43 percent) and Romania (45 percent), in terms of national income per capita.

Turkey's national income per capita also left behind all the Balkan countries except Croatia in 2010. The ratio is 61 percent in Croatia, 40 percent in Montenegro, 35 percent in Macedonia and Serbia, 30 percent in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and 29 percent in Albania.

The highest national income per capita is in Luxembourg with 283 percent of EU's average. It is followed by the Netherlands with 134 percent.


/World Bulletin/