Catalonia: economy

Output per person in Catalonia compared with Spain and the other sixteen autonomous communities. Shaded bands mark who presided over the Generalitat; Lag lines results up with the government in office one or two years earlier. Many levers that shape these numbers sit with the Government of Spain or the EU, not the Generalitat: see Who governs.

GDP per person in purchasing power standards

% of the EU-27 average. Adjusts for price levels between countries, not between Spanish regions.

Real GDP growth

Change in output on the previous year, %.

GDP per person by autonomous community,

Purchasing power standards, % of the EU-27 average.