NUTS-3 FI19A · Finland
Population
178,7492025
GDP
€9,072M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
9.2%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
76.9%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
7,504.1 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
FI19A · NO094
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Pohjanmaa (Opportunity 38). Runner-up: Telemark (37). Contrarian pick: Telemark — leads the set on Energy cost (EU pctl 100).
Why you might not pick Pohjanmaa
Its weakest dimension is Growth momentum (EU pctl 31) — Telemark may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Pohjanmaa leads under all four archetype mandates — the recommendation is weight-stable.
Phase-2 diligence checklist
- Site-level grid connection capacity and power pricing (beyond country-grain energy data)
- Local incentives, tax regimes and permitting timelines
- Workforce depth for your specific roles (the talent pillar is a proxy)
- Real-estate availability, rents and land — public pan-EU data stops at the Nordics
This is a mandate-neutral read. To weight the pillars to your thesis, run these regions through the Site Screener — it ranks all 1,211 regions under your weights and exports the full PDF. First-pass macro screening, not investment advice.
Composite intelligence · 0–100 EU-percentile scores
Opportunity Indexscale + growth + access + structure
38.0
37.3
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
63.5
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Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
59.5
64.5
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
83.0
48.3
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
46.3
41.3
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
71.5
79.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
30.6
36.3
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Population
0.3% 5y
0.5% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€50,754
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Population density
24 /km²
12 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 79 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€7,934M
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GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€384M
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GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,751M
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GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,487M
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GVA — construction (F)
€497M
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GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,037M
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Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€22,800
€25,500
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
42,400 PPS
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GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€50,900
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Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€13,845M
€8,238M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€2,726M
€632M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€29,084M
€17,442M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€871M
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GVA — information & communication (J)
€275M
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GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,627M
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GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,638M
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Labour market
Employment, total persons
87,520
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Self-employed persons
9,400
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Employment in manufacturing (C)
21,470
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Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
80.0%
76.6%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
22.0%
13.4%
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
13,686
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Enterprise births
1,084
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Enterprise deaths
994
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3-year enterprise survival rate
4.9%
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Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
3.0%
1.7%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
4.8%
3.2%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.9%
1.1%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
41.5%
43.8%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
36.0%
50.6%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
27.0%
20.5%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
28.6%
29.1%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
10.3%
9.7%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
96.9%
100.0%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
408,031
1,236,967
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
729 /1k
533 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
526
3,322
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
6,272 kt
5,633 kt
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
294
1,868
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
2 km/1000km²
6 km/1000km²
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
15
101
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
107,813
110,463
Population aged 65+
42,280
40,387
Population aged under 15
28,656
27,013
Median age of population
42.4 yrs
44.7 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
39.2%
36.6%
Crude rate of total population change
6.4 /1k
4.3 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
8.0 /1k
6.2 /1k
Crude birth rate
8.5 /1k
8.0 /1k
Crude death rate
10.1 /1k
9.9 /1k
Live births
1,508
1,428
Deaths
1,793
1,757
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
65.8%
61.0%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.48
1.41
Population density (persons per km²)
26 /km²
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Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
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18.9%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.3 yrs
82.8 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
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13.5%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
269 /100k
263 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
903 /100k
841 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
217 /100k
218 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.6 /100k
0.6 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
23.6 /100k
27.1 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
84.5 /100k
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Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,412 /100k
1,712 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
41 /M
13 /M
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.067/kWh
€0.064/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.065/kWh
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Housing market
Dwelling price per m² — old housing-company dwellings (Statistics Finland)
€1,798/m²
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Dwelling price per m² (NOK, all types, Statistics Norway)
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27,216 NOK/m²
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
35 m
267 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
0 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
153 days/yr
142 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
11 days/yr