Cyprus income per head at 82% of EU average

Turkey’s at 29%

First estimates (known as “Nowcasts”) from the European Union statistical service Eurostat show that incomes in Cyprus are 82% of the EU25 average.

Data for gross domestic product (GDP) are measured using purchasing power parities (PPP), while GDP per capita are measured using Purchasing Power Standards (PPS). Both these are measures that take account of differences in the cost of living.

Luxembourgers are the richest, with GDP per capita at PPS measuring 223% the EU average, while Ireland is next, at 139%.

Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Belgium are around 20% above the average, while Sweden and Finland were about 15% above average, and France and Germany around 10% above average. Italy was about 5% above the EU25 average.

Spain was just below the EU25 average, and Greece, Cyprus and Slovenia were about 20% below average.

Portugal, Malta and the Czech Republic were around 30% below average, and Hungary 40% below. Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland were around half the average, while Latvia was about 55% below the EU25

average.

Turkey scored the lowest among candidates countries at just 295 of teh EU average.