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GDP increased only in Vilnius, Kaunas and Šiauliai counties in Lithuania in 2016

Jūratė Šinkūnienė, Statistics Lithuania, 24.11.2017.Print version
Statistics Lithuania informs that, based on non-final data, in 2016, gross domestic product (GDP) increased only in Vilnius, Kaunas and Šiauliai counties. In 2016, the bulk of GDP was created in Vilnius county – 41.6%; GDP created in Kaunas and Klaipėda counties accounted for, respectively, 20 and 11.1% of the country’s GDP. As in 2015, the contribution of Alytus, Marijampolė, Tauragė, Telšiai and Utena counties to the country’s GDP was below 4%.

The largest per-capita GDP, as usual, was recorded in Vilnius county. Vilnius county was also the only county where per-capita GDP exceeded the national average and made up 148.1% of the national average. Per-capita GDP in Klaipėda and Kaunas counties made up 98.5 and 99.9% respectively. In the rest of the counties, per-capita GDP was also below the national average. The smallest per-capita GDP was recorded in Tauragė county (54.5%).




In 2016, the nominal per-capita GDP increased the most in Vilnius (6.9%), Kaunas (5.1%) and Šiauliai (3.4%) counties, while the country’s nominal GDP per capita grew by 4.6%.


In 2016, in terms of GDP per capita, the gap between Vilnius and other regions increased: in Vilnius county, this indicator exceeded those of Alytus, Marijampolė, Panevėžys, Utena, Šiauliai, Telšiai and Tauragė counties more than twice.


GDP and population by county in 2016*

 

National

Counties

Alytus

Kaunas

Klaipėda

Marijampolė

Panevėžys

Šiauliai

Tauragė

Telšiai

Utena

Vilnius

GDP, EUR million

38 668.3

1 213.5

7 723.6

4 282.4

1 177.2

2 263.3

2 737.9

734.7

1 315.3

1 141.7

16 078.7

Proportion of GDP, against the country’s GDP,%

100.0

3.1

20.0

11.1

3.0

5.9

7.1

1.9

3.4

3.0

41.6

GDP per capita, EUR thousand

13.5

8.5

13.5

13.3

8.0

9.9

10.0

7.4

9.4

8.4

20.0

Per-capita GDP, against the national average,%

100.0

62.8

99.9

98.5

59.3

73.6

74.3

54.5

69.9

62.6

148.1

Average annual population, thousand

2 868.2

143.4

573.6

322.6

147.2

228.0

273.4

99.9

139.5

135.3

805.3

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* Provisional data


Based on more comprehensive data, Statistics Lithuania revised provisional GDP data for 2015 by county.

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* Provisional data


For more information, see the Database of Indicators.





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