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Subtract the population growth rate and EU looks even better. Population growth rate EU 0.212% vs. US 0.97%.

Economic growth per person US = .5%, EU 1.4%.

The averages can hide all sorts of things. Without the mighty German industrial powerhouse, how do things stand?

Without the coastal states, how does the US stand?

Quite.

Germany real GDP growth per capita is very close to that average, so without the German industrial powerhouse, it would be pretty much the same.