2023-12-31 07:30:03
The rapid recovery of activity after the pandemic allowed Girona’s economy to recover in a single year almost all of GDP which he lost in 2020 as a result of the restrictions that were applied to curb the coronavirus. However, this strong growth was not enough to reduce the distance that separates the Girona counties from the Catalan average, on the contrary, this difference grew.
Specifically, according to the latest data from the Regional Accounting of Spain published this December by the National Institute of Statistics (INE)the province of Girona ended 2021 with a GDP per capita of 27,127 euroswhich meant an increase in 8.4% over the one recorded the previous year and remained 5.3% below what was recorded in 2019. A more than remarkable advance, if you take into account the impact that Covid had on such important sectors for the Girona regions as tourism, despite the fact that the Girona figure is still far from the Catalan average.
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Every year more difference
Girona’s economy has less and less weight in Catalonia. The GDP per capita of the demarcation was the lowest in all of Catalonia in 2021, surpassed by Barcelona (30,481 euros), Tarragona (29,617 euros) and Lleida (28,598 euros). A situation that cannot be explained as a consequence of the pandemic, since since 2010 Girona has been the province of Catalonia with the lowest GDP per capita.
The Girona counties closed 2021 with a GDP per capita 9.4% lower than the Catalan average (29,942 euros)the largest difference ever recorded if we take into account the historical series data of lNational Institute of Statisticswhich date back to the year 2000. This gap increased by 0.4% from 2020 to 2021, but has risen by 8 points over the past 13 years.
However, this situation has not always been the case for the demarcation. From 2000 to 2007, the first recorded in the INE’s historical series, the GDP per capita of Girona’s counties was higher than the Catalan average, with 2002 being the year that recorded the highest difference , specifically of 4.1%. This positive difference towards Girona’s economy in comparison with the Catalan average ended in 2008, coinciding with the bursting of the real estate bubble. Since then the province’s GDP per capita has always been below the Catalonia average. In fact, the gap has widened year-on-year, with just three exceptions: 2012 when the year-on-year gap fell by 0.2%, 2015 with a 0.5% drop, and 2019 with a drop of 0.3%.
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On the other hand, if we compare Girona’s GDP per capita with the national average, Girona’s economy remained higher in 2021, specifically by 5.1%, since the average for Spain was 25,801 euros. However, Girona’s economy has also seen this difference gradually narrow in recent years. 2002 was the year that the demarcation recorded a greater difference in its GDP per capita with the state average, 25.9% above, according to INE data. Since then this difference has been reduced by more than 20 points.
Almost 40,000 euros
The list of provinces with the highest GDP per capita in 2001 led him Álava, where it stood at 38,829 euros. In addition to Álava, the provinces that generated the most wealth per inhabitant that year were Madrid, with 35,380 euros; Gipuzkoa, with 32,971; Biscay, with 30,848; and Barcelona, with 30,481.
On the opposite side, Málaga was placed, with the aforementioned 18,044 euros; Cádiz, with 18,114; Granada, with 18,531; Toledo, with 18,641; Jaén, with 18,791; Melilla, with 18,817; Córdoba, with 18,838; Badajoz, with 19,012; and Las Palmas, with 19,506.
In absolute terms, the GDP of Girona’s counties reached 21,355 million euros in 2021, which represents 1.7% of the Spanish economy and 9.4% more than a year earlier.
On the other hand, the INE has also released the data for autonomous regions for 2022. A year in which income per capita in Catalonia grew by 8.7% – 0.5% less than Spain as a whole – up to 32,550 euros. They are 4,388 euros more than the national average, which was 28,162 euros. Madrid, with 38,435 euros, was the richest community that year, and the autonomous city of Melilla the poorest, with 20,698 euros.
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