EEDA - East of England Development Agency

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Facts and figures

Key information about the East of England:

• population of 5.6 million
  
• 430,000 businesses
  
• Gross value added* (GVA) of £109.9 billion - 9.7 per cent of the UK total
  
• GVA per head of £19,599 compared to the UK average of £18,631
  
• employment rate of 77.2 per cent in the East of England, compared to the UK rate of 74.4 per cent
  
• in the second quarter of 2007 the proportion of children living in workless households in the East of England was 14 per cent, compared with 16 per cent in the rest of the UK
  
• the level of multiple deprivation score in the East of England is 14.86, compared to the UK score of 21.61.

* Gross value added is the difference between output and intermediate consumption for any given sector/industry. That is the difference between the value of goods and services produced and the cost of raw materials and other inputs which are used up in production (definition from the Office of National Statistics).

All statistics dated April 2008.

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