Slovakia was the 4th-poorest country in the EU last year

Slovakia was the 4th-poorest country in the EU (in terms of GDP per capita) or 6th-poorest (in terms of actual individual consumption, a measure of material welfare) last year, according to revised Eurostat data on purchasing power parities (PPP). Among countries with GDP per capita below the EU’s average, only Slovakia and Greece saw their share of EU average fall in the past decade. GDP and AIC per capita in PPP as a share of EU average in 2023 (figure for 2013 in brackets):

	GDP	AIC
Austria	120% (131%)	114% (123%)
Czechia	90% (85%)	81% (79%)
Poland	77% (67%)	83% (75%)
Hungary	77% (68%)	70% (63%)
Slovakia	74% (77%)	77% (74%)

(Eurostat)