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Europe's Disposable Income, Mapped
A striking visualization shows how much buying power average Europeans really have after tax.
Which European nation’s citizens are the most prosperous? Finding an answer to that question isn’t as easy as it sounds.
The E.U. and Europe’s individual nation states do publish regularly updated figures on average incomes. According to the latest available numbers, the continent’s highest net salaries can be found (in order from high to low) in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland. But such figures still don’t tell the whole story, because they don’t take into account regional price differences. The equivalent of a Euro buys a whole lot less in Switzerland than it does in Romania.