• Independence Challenge: Catalonia still suffers from the sharp drop in the rate of job creation that unleashed 1-O

Catalonia is no longer the first economy in Spain . The National Institute of Statistics (INE), in the review of the regional accounting that it has published today, notes that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Community of Madrid surpassed Catalan already in 2018, and that therefore the Madrid region It now occupies the first place.

Until now, the INE estimated that Catalonia was still the first power and that, despite the lower economic growth that this community is largely experienced by the process, this relevant position is still occupied. However, after reviewing the growth of the country as a whole a few months ago, which showed that Spain grew two tenths less in 2018 than previously estimated, it has done the same with the progress of the Different autonomies And in that exercise, the advance data of 2018 indicates that, indeed, Madrid is already ahead of Catalonia .

Specifically, the GDP of the Community of Madrid ended 2018 at 230,794 million euros, a fact that is even slightly higher than previously indicated by Statistics. And Catalonia, on the other hand, has not only not advanced but now has a lower GDP: 228,682 million for the previous 231,277.

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