• SPRI
  • ¤ International department
  • ¤ Overseas network
  • ¤ SPRI USA
• BASQUE COUNTRY
  • ¤ Presentation
  • ¤ Economy and industry
  • ¤ Additional information

Economy and industry

Since its early industrialization in the XIX century, the Basque Country established itself as one of the most prosperous territories in the steel industry and naval construction in Europe. After the crisis suffered in the 1980's, an industrial policy elaborated by the Department of Industry, Commerce and Tourism and implemented with the collaboration of SPRI, was decisive in industrial restructuring and incorporating new technologies and sectors to our productive framework.

Basque economic development, its degree of participation in overseas markets and its enterprising spirit are clear in the following graphs:

• GDP growth
• GDP per Capita
• Euskadi among the European countries with the highest GDP per Capita (PPP)
• Importance of the Basque Country in the total production of Spain's principal sectors, 2004
• Euskadi, mainly an investing country
• Industrial production index 2001-2004
• Export drive 2004
• Euskadi, an economy open to the world