According to the research which Eurostat issued on Thursday, GDP per inhabitant in Croatia and Latvia last year amounted to 47 percent of the EU average.
Croatia is ahead of Romania and Bulgaria where GDP per capita amounts to 35 and 32 percent of the EU average.
New EU member states are placed better than Croatia - Poland's GDP amounts to 50 percent of the EU average, Lithuania's 52 percent, Slovakia's 55 percent, Estonia's 57 percent, Hungary's 61 percent, the Czech Republic's 73 percent, Slovenia's 80 percent and Cyprus 83 percent of the EU average.
GDP per inhabitant in Luxemburg was more than twice the EU average in 2005. The high level of GDP per capita in Luxembourg is partly due to the large share of cross-border workers in total employment. While contributing to GDP, they are not taken in consideration as part of the resident population which is used to calculate GDP per inhabitant.
Ireland was almost 40 percent above average, while Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria and Belgium were around 20 percent above average. The United Kingdom and Sweden were 15 percent above average and Finland, germany and France about 10 percent above average.