Brussels, Feb 20 (EFE) , while the Canary Islands was the third, as detailed on Monday by the community statistical agency Eurostat.
Specifically, the Balearic economy fell by 15% between 2019 and 2021, in a community mostly dependent on the service, restaurant and tourism sectors, areas that were greatly affected by the confinements and sanitary restrictions derived from the covid.
With the Balearic Islands in first position, the Canary Islands also occupy third place in the classification of European regions where real GDP fell the most between 2021 and the pre-pandemic year of 2019, with a drop, in the case of the Canary Islands, of 13, 4 %.
Only the Portuguese region of Algarve, with a registered decrease of 13.8%, was placed between the two Spanish communities in the list of EU areas most affected in macroeconomic terms by covid-19.
By contrast, the largest increases in real GDP occurred in three Irish territories: the South (up 28.4%), the East and Midlands (+15.4%) and the North and East region (+14.1%).
Eurostat also reflects the GDP per capita of each region adjusted for purchasing power parity, and that in 2021, it only had three Spanish communities that exceeded the average for the whole of the EU: the Community of Madrid (by 114%), Country Basque (108%) and Navarre (101%).
On the other hand, Catalonia was on the verge of exceeding the community average (with 98%), while Andalusia, Extremadura and the Canary Islands were (with 62%) the three Spanish communities that were furthest from the average GDP per capita adjusted in the EU.