On 18th June 2020, EUROSTAT published the first preliminary estimates of the gross domestic product and actual individual consumption per capita for 2019, expressed in purchasing power standards. MONSTAT has participated in this project together with the national statistical institutes of other European countries.

 

Based on first estimates of EUROSTAT, the gross domestic product per capita in purchasing power standards in Montenegro in 2019 was 50% of the EU average.

 

Among the Member States, the highest GDP per capita in purchasing power standards is recorded in Luxembourg which level was more than two and a half times above the EU average and it was 261% of the EU average, while Bulgaria was at the lowest level with 53% of the EU average.

 

Among the neighbouring countries, Croatia recorded the highest GDP per capita in purchasing power standards which is 65% of the EU average, while Montenegro is ranked at the second place with 50% of the EU average. Serbia was on the level of 41% of the European average, North Macedonia was on the level of 38%, Bosnia and Herzegovina was on the level of 32%, while Albania was on the level of 31% of the European average.