On 19th June 2019, EUROSTAT published the first preliminary estimates of the gross domestic product and actual individual consumption per capita for 2018, 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 2018 was 47% 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 254% of the EU average, while Bulgaria was at the lowest level with 50% of the EU average.

 

Among the neighbouring countries, which have the status of candidate or potential candidate for accession in EU, Montenegro recorded the highest GDP per capita in purchasing power standards which is 47% of the EU average, while Serbia is ranked at the second place with 40% of the EU average. North Macedonia was on the level of 38% of the European average while Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina were on the level of 31% of the European average.