This article presents provisional estimates of regional gross domestic product (GDP) at basic prices first published in an Office for National Statistics (ONS) news release on 27 February 2001. These estimates are consistent with the estimates of UK GDP published in the 2000 edition of the UK National Accounts - The Blue Book. Due to the absence of key regional indicator data, the estimates for 1997 to 1999 are marked as provisional.
The provisional estimates for 1999 show that:
Annual growth for UK GDP, (excluding Extra-Regio and the statistical discrepancy) was 3.8 per cent in 1999. The South East had the highest growth at 5.1 per cent. Annual growth was lowest in the North East at 2.3 per cent. GDP per head in London was 30 per cent higher than the UK average. In Northern Ireland and the North East it was 23 per cent lower. GDP per head for all regions was above £10,000 for the first time in 1999.
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