Change in GDP per capita in regions of Europe as a share of 1900's rate 1870-1950
In terms of GDP per capita growth, Southern Europe's rate gradually increased to 137 percent by 1929, before the Great Depression and Second World War saw it fall to 129 percent in 1950. In comparison, the political and economic instability of the interwar period saw GDP per capita fall to a similar level to its 1900 figure in Central and Eastern Europe by 1929, before it increased again over the subsequent two decades.