{"id":9705,"date":"2024-01-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regiodata.eu\/?p=9705"},"modified":"2024-01-23T12:06:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T11:06:59","slug":"europe-purchasing-power-regional-inequalities-are-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regiodata.eu\/en\/europe-purchasing-power-regional-inequalities-are-increasing\/","title":{"rendered":"EUROPE: Purchasing power \u2013 Regional inequalities are increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9705\" class=\"elementor elementor-9705 elementor-9704\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3612b60 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3612b60\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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increasing.<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d35046 elementor-position-inline-start elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-block-start elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"4d35046\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regiodata.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pr-regiodata-purchasing-power-europe-23-1-24.docx\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Download Press release\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-file-download\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a 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class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27e7da7 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27e7da7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>The current RegioData Research analysis on available income in Europe reveals increasing inequalities among individual countries, regions, and also within population groups.<\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Upward trend for Europe&#8217;s purchasing power<\/span><\/p><p>In Europe, the year 2023 was marked by a renewed increase in purchasing power. Compared to the previous year, per capita purchasing power in many countries rose by 10% or more, although this is partly attributable to inflation. However, there hasn&#8217;t been much change in the country rankings: Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Iceland, and Norway remain the countries with by far the wealthiest population. The bottom-ranking countries also remain the same: Republic of Moldova, Kosovo, Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The difference between Switzerland and the Republic of Moldova, for example, has continued to rise sharply and is now 27 times higher.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The wealthy countries are becoming richer rapidly<\/span><\/p><p>While in the Republic of Moldova, the average purchasing power has only doubled with an increase of around \u20ac1,000 per capita per year over the last 10 years, during the same period in Switzerland, it has risen by approximately \u20ac17,000 per capita per year. Switzerland, alongside Iceland, has experienced by far the highest leap in purchasing power during this time. The lowest performance in terms of the population&#8217;s prosperity level was achieved in Turkey, Kosovo, and the Republic of Moldova (all figures converted to euros).<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Regional disparities are gradually increasing<\/span><\/p><p>In addition to the overall positive trend in purchasing power per capita in Europe, it is also evident that regional differences within individual countries are either increasing or at least not significantly decreasing. In countries with traditionally large disparities, such as Italy and Spain, the gap between the affluent north and the impoverished south has not narrowed over the past 10 years. This is despite substantial transfer payments, which are known to contribute to significant tendencies of separation on the part of wealthy regions.<\/p><p>Despite 35 years of reunification, the noticeable disparities in prosperity between East and West Germany are only slowly diminishing. In Croatia, where significant differences exist between the affluent coastal region and the impoverished hinterland, there is only gradual convergence. In the United Kingdom, the disparity between England, particularly the London region, and the poorer parts in Wales and Scotland has even slightly increased.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Increasing disparities within population groups<\/span><\/p><p>At the national level, the differences between rich and poor have not changed significantly over the past 10 years. While countries like Slovakia, Slovenia, Iceland, and the Czech Republic exhibit relatively stable income distribution (with Gini coefficients consistently below 25 points), the largest \u2013 and continually increasing \u2013 inequalities persist in Kosovo (Gini coefficient of 44 points), Turkey, and Bulgaria. Some countries, particularly in former Eastern European regions and Turkey, benefit from a strong diaspora. Greater income inequalities can be mitigated to some extent through remittances and transfer payments to the home country.<\/p><p>Long-term trends clearly show that, across all countries in Europe, urban regions are gaining significant purchasing power while peripheral areas are losing ground. The importance of rural areas continues to decline as more young people move to cities, motivated by better education and career opportunities. A relatively new development, however, is that cities themselves are losing relative purchasing power and often fall below the national average, while the so-called &#8220;suburbs&#8221; or &#8220;peripheral areas&#8221; are gaining significantly. Examples of this trend can be observed in cities like Paris, Vienna, or Istanbul. 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