Economic and demographic disparities

The maps the British Isles show the distribution of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita (in Euro, 2019), the growth of gross domestic product as well as population growth, both for 2010-2019, and employment in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. Here some map highlights: While GDP per capita 2019 is somewhat surprisingly highest in Southern and Eastern Ireland as well as Greater London (as expected) und the surrounding South East England, the strongest growth is limited to the two Irish regions only. The relatively mild GDP growth per capita of Greater London my be caused by strong population growth in the same period. Apart from London it is the regions of the population corridors described in map 2 which have the high growth rates, whereas the peripheral regions to the West and North do not. Employment must be looked at from a services point of view: Greater London is leading with more than 86%, followed by all other regions with more than 80% except a central belt streching from Western and Southern Ireland to Wales and the West and East Midlands, where only 70-80% are employed in services. Agriculture is strong in the peripheral, rural parts of Ireland (as was to be expected), while industry and construction (which sometimes supersedes industry) are important in the aforementioned central belt with little tertiary employment as well as in the North of England.