All Catalan municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants registered positive growth in GDP per capita in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to preliminary data published this Friday by the Statistical Institute of Catalonia (Idescat). The largest increases were in Castelldefels (7.7%) and Mollet del Vallès (7.5%), while Rubí registered the smallest increase (5.2%).

Catalonia is the second region in the Spanish state with the highest GDP (gross domestic product, which measures the wealth of a territory), behind only Madrid. However, despite these absolute figures, when wealth is distributed among the inhabitants of a territory, Catalonia is the fourth region in GDP per capita, according to the state accounting data published this Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute.