From the second region of the country, it became the ninth. The 2023 figures are provisional. GDP per inhabitant measures the output produced in the area, and there, electricity generation from lignite counted for a great deal.
Household income, however, did not follow. In 2023 it was at 76.5% of the EU average, against 75.4% for the whole country: at Greece's level. Eurostat does not explain why.
The region lost 10.3% of its residents between the 2011 and 2021 censuses, the largest decline of the 13 regions, and its unemployment was the highest in the country in four of the five years 2021–2025. According to PPC (ΔΕΗ), Ptolemaida V stops burning lignite at the end of 2026.
The comparison is with the national average (Greece = 100). Life expectancy in the region was 82.3 years in 2024, above the country's (81.9), a difference that may also be chance. For the future, the PPC–AWS memorandum for a data centre concerns 300 MW under conditions and does not state an amount or a number of jobs.
The figures cover the whole region: Kozani, Florina, Kastoria and Grevena.
Sources: Eurostat, ELSTAT (ΕΛΣΤΑΤ, Hellenic Statistical Authority), PPC (ΔΕΗ, Public Power Corporation).
