§ Lord Monkswellasked Her Majesty's Government:
What is (a) the per capita income in pounds sterling; and (b) the per capita energy consumption, of each member state of the European Union.
§ Lord McIntosh of HaringeyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the Chief Executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter to Lord Monkswell from the Director of Macro-Economic Statistics and Analysis Group, Office for National Statistics, Mr. John Kidgell, dated 13 November 1997.
The Director of the Office for National Statistics has been asked to reply to your recent question on per capita income and per capita energy consumption of each member state of the EU. The director has asked me to respond in his absence.
The income of a country is usually defined as its gross domestic product (GDP). Estimates of GDP and population estimates for the fifteen EU member states are shown in Section 3 of the OECD publication Main Economic Indicators, copies of which are available in the House of Lords library.
The analysis is expressed in US dollars at current prices and current exchange rates; unfortunately there is no comparative analysis expressed in sterling. The latest data available has been converted to a per capita GDP basis for 1996, and is summarised in the attached Table A.
The latest available information on per capita energy consumption in the Member States of the EU is shown in the attached Table B.These figures Were provided by a statistician from the Goverment Statistical Service With the Department of Trade and Industry.
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Table A: $US GDP Per Capita of the EU Member States EU Member State $US GDP per capita Austria 28,052 Belgium 26,031 Denmark 33,143 Finland 24,195 France 26,381 Germany 26,741 Greece 11,734 Ireland 19,221 Italy 21,013 Luxembourg 41,866 Netherlands 25,326 Portugal 10,468 Spain 14,810 Sweden 28,120 United Kingdom 19,492
Table B: Total primary energy supply/population in 1996 (tonnes of oil equivalent per capita) EU member state Per capita' Austria 3.39 Belgium 5.54 Denmark 4.41 Finland 5.63 France 4.31 Germany 4.29 Greece 2.39 Ireland 3.33 Italy 2.77 Luxembourg 8.48 Netherlands 4.87 Portugal 1.90 Spain 2.60 Sweden 6.08 United Kingdom 3.97 Source:
International Energy Agency.
'Estimates.