Photo: DPAThe German economy grew by a healthy 1.9 percent in 2016, as the motor of the European economy purred along. So statistics published by the state statistics office in North Rhine-Westphalia on Thursday made for surprising reading. This map from Statista shows the GDP growth of each state in Germany in 2016. Berlin and Saxony both recorded GDP growth of 2.7 percent in 2016, by some way the strongest growth figures in the entire country. Brandenburg and Thuringia recorded growth of 1.7 percent and 1.8 percent respectively, in line with the national average.

Source: The Local March 31, 2017 09:11 UTC