The Province of Trento, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Basilicata and Puglia
are the Italian territories whose 2021 GDP exceeded the pre-pandemic GDP in terms of volume.
Most of the other regions are approaching but not exceeding the 2019 threshold. It emerges from the latest
Eurostat
data .
In a Europe of generalized growth but in which many territories have not yet fully absorbed the economic damage of Covid, out of 496 monitored, 79 Regions and Provinces have exceeded the 2019 GDP.
All the regions monitored saw a
rebound in GDP
proportional to its fall in the worst year of the pandemic, 2020. All except Wallonia, the French overseas territory Maiotta and Tyrol.
The top regions in the 2021 regional GDP per capita ranking are Luxembourg (268% of the EU average), Southern (261%) and Central Ireland (239%) and the Autonomous Region of Brussels (204%).
The Autonomous Province of Bolzano (151%), Lombardy (128%) and the Autonomous Province of Trento (126%) are the territories with the highest GDP per capita in Italy.
The very high figure in Luxembourg and Brussels, explains Eurostat in a note, can be partly explained by a high influx of commuter workers.
For Ireland, the data depend mainly on the location of major multinational companies in the area.