Examples of using Theeuaverage in English and their translations into Danish
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In both countries, GDPper headwas still only 71%of theEUaverage in 2002.
In Portugal, productivity growth was also higher than theEUaverage, while in Spain, where employment increased markedly, it was only aroundhalf the average.
Many contain areas in which GDPper head is below 75% of theEUaverage.
In Portugal, therefore, the stock of cars is above theEUaverage and has risen particularly rapidly in recent years.
In Greece and Portugal, where all regions are Objective 1,the proportion is below theEUaverage.
The gap between their averageGDPper head and theEUaverage would also double fromaround 30%belowaverage to over 60%below.
In Italy growth in the Mezzogiorno(2% a year)was similar to that in the rest of the country and equally below theEUaverage.
The averageGDPper head in these areas is 87% of theEUaverage, significantly lower than in other parts of the irrespective countries.
Between 1991and 1994, therefore, GDPper head fell in both Greece and Portugal,while in Spain it grew more slowly than theEUaverage.
The proportion of electrified anddouble-track lines is below theEUaverage, though similar to that in the Cohesion countries and higher than in Objective 1 regions.
Overall energy consumption per head in the accession countries is similar to the level in Greece or Portugal and much lower than theEUaverage.
While it was relatively close to the 67% target in the Czech Republic(65½%) and was the same as theEUaverage in Slovenia, elsewhere the gap was substantial.
Density is measured by a composite index which indicates a region's endowment(arithmetic average of the ratios of length of roads relative to land area and relative to population),expressed relative to theEUaverage.
If this forecast is realised, then much of the convergence towards theEUaverage in the second half of the 1990s will have been reversed in the three years 2001 to 2004.
In Ireland, employment growth was accompanied by growth of labour productivity of justunder 4% a year, over three times theEUaverage rate.
In the German new Länder, GDPper head increased by much the same as theEUaverage between 1994and 2001, but in the Italian Mezzogiorno, it was below average.
In Ireland, where population rose by over 1%ayear,GDPper head increased in real terms by almost four times theEUaverage rate 8% a year as against just over 2%a year.
Regions granted Objective 1 status because their GDPper headwas less than 75% of theEUaverage, in PPS terms, experienced a higher rate of growth than other parts of the Union between 1988, when the Structural Fundswere reformed, and 2001.
In Objective 1 regions elsewhere in the Union, which account for only a very small proportion of national population,growth ofGDPper headwas in linewith theEUaverage over this period see Methodological note.
Employed in these regions rose by just under 1½%a year,slightlymore than theEUaverage, and in 2002, the employment rate was over 5 percentage points higher than 6 years earlier as against arise of 4 percentage points in the rest of the Union.
Since the reform process began in 1992, direct aids to producers have risen to 70%of total spending, butthey remain below theEUaverage in Spain, the only cohesion country where this is the case.
Whereas around 73 million people, some 19% of the EU15 population,live in regions where averageGDPper head in the years 1999 to 2001was below 75% of theEUaverage, according to the latest estimates, almost as many, some 69million of the 74.5 million who will become EU citizens in 2004(92% of the total), live in regions with GDPper head below 75% of the EU25 average in the newMember States.
In particular, in the German new Länder, where GDP increasedmarkedly in the early 1990s after unification,growth ofGDPper headwas much the same as theEUaverage over the 7 years 1994 to 2001 under 2½% a year.
Between 1994and 2001, growth ofGDPper head in the Cohesion countries, even excluding Ireland,was 1%ayear above theEUaverage, and the proportion of workingage population in employment in all apart from Greece increased by muchmore than the average.
For Poland, for example, even at this rate, it wouldstill take 20 years ormore for GDPper head to reach 75% of theEUaverage and many more years to converge to theEUaverage or close to it.
In the 4 Cohesion countries taken together, the density of the rail network(ie in relation to surface area and population)is only around 55%of theEUaverage, though higher in Ireland(80% of the average) than in the other three.
In each case, they had low growth of productivity, this increasing on average by only½% a year over the period- only slightly over a third of theEUaverage- aswell as low growth of employment just over½% a year as against an EU average of almost 1½%a year.
Only in Bulgaria, Latvia and Romania is the proportion of those aged 18 to 24 with only basic schooling andno longer in education or training above theEUaverage(around 20%or just above in all three cases), though even here, it was still below the average in Objective 1 regions.