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FRY30 · IS001

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NUTS-3 FRY30 · France

Guyane

Population

297,4552025

GDP

€5,244M2024

Unemployment· NUTS-2 source

16.9%2025

Employment· NUTS-2 source

50%2025

Active firms

50,5262026

Cadastral parcels

80,8982026

Area

83,770.7 km²

NUTS-3 IS001 · Iceland

Höfuðborgarsvæði

Population

249,0542025

GDP

—

Unemployment· NUTS-2 source

4.5%2025

Employment· NUTS-2 source

85.8%2025

Active firms· FR-only

—

Cadastral parcels· FR-only

—

Area

1,033.7 km²

Decision brief

Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity

Best overall fit: Höfuðborgarsvæði (Opportunity 49). Runner-up: Guyane (18). Contrarian pick: Guyane — leads the set on Demographic outlook (EU pctl 99).

#1Höfuðborgarsvæði

Strengths

Labour market (100) · Demographic outlook (98)

No red flags

#2Guyane

Strengths

Demographic outlook (99) · Energy cost (88)

Red flags

Economic base (EU bottom 15%)

Labour market (EU bottom 15%)

Talent & skills (EU bottom 15%)

Connectivity (EU bottom 15%)

Industrial base (EU bottom 15%)

Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)

Quality of life (EU bottom 15%)

Why you might not pick Höfuðborgarsvæði

Its weakest dimension is Connectivity (EU pctl 32) — Guyane may suit a mandate that weights that higher.

How robust is this recommendation?

Höfuðborgarsvæði 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

18.1

49.1

Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers

55.5

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Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment

14.9

73.3

Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted

41.7

91.7

Connectivitytransit + air + market access

12.7

31.7

Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers

8.0

74.5

Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory

23.6

74.0

Trajectories · 2012–latest

Real GDP (2020 prices)

0.3% 5y

—

Population

0.8% 5y

1.3% 5y

Unemployment rate

1.0% 5y

0.0% 5y

Derived comparisons

GDP per capita

€17,628

—

Population density

4 /km²

241 /km²

Parcels per 1k pop

272

FR-only

Firms per 1k pop

170

FR-only

All indicators · 87 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)

Economy

Gross value added, total (current prices)

€5,017M

—

GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)

€224M

—

GVA — industry (B–E)

€414M

—

GVA — manufacturing (C)

€150M

—

GVA — construction (F)

€360M

—

GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)

€703M

—

Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2

€12,000

—

GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)

16,300 PPS

—

GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)

€17,700

—

Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2

€1,517M

—

Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2

€32M

—

Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2

€3,233M

—

GVA — real estate activities (L)

€519M

—

GVA — information & communication (J)

€179M

—

GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)

€1,289M

—

GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)

€2,027M

—

Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)

€4,968M

—

Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)

€66,798

—

Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)

€1,541M

—

Labour market

Employment, total persons

80,000

—

Self-employed persons

6,200

—

Employment in manufacturing (C)

3,300

—

Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2

50.9%

88.1%

Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2

33.6%

9.5%

Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)

16.9%

3.5%

Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)

81,500

152,600

Business demography

Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)

11,086

—

Enterprise births

2,203

—

Enterprise deaths

1,459

—

3-year enterprise survival rate

6.3%

—

Innovation & R&D

R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2

—

2.5%

Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2

—

5.6%

R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2

—

2.0%

Education

Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2

21.7%

46.1%

Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2

18.9%

44.8%

Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2

5.8%

27.3%

Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2

19.1%

25.7%

Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2

3.4%

10.2%

Digital

Households with internet access ·N2

87.9%

98.4%

Tourism

Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)

417,814

3,483,746

Mobility

Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2

228 /1k

639 /1k

Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.

514

896

Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).

173

360

Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2

0 km/1000km²

—

Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.

123

Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.

Demography

Population aged 15–64 (working age)

184,223

166,301

Population aged 65+

22,891

38,312

Population aged under 15

90,341

44,441

Median age of population

27.5 yrs

37.3 yrs

Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)

12.4%

23.0%

Crude rate of total population change

4.4 /1k

20.2 /1k

Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment

-14.7 /1k

15.4 /1k

Crude birth rate

23.1 /1k

11.4 /1k

Crude death rate

4.0 /1k

6.6 /1k

Live births

6,849

2,823

Deaths

1,191

1,636

Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)

61.5%

49.8%

Total fertility rate (births per woman)

3.10

1.58

Population density (persons per km²)

4 /km²

239 /km²

Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)

591,746

423,254

Social

At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2

54.8%

—

Life expectancy at birth ·N2

80.1 yrs

82.8 yrs

At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2

50.7%

—

Health

Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2

318 /100k

—

Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2

1,167 /100k

828 /100k

Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2

170 /100k

224 /100k

Safety & crime

Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants

15.2 /100k

1.6 /100k

Robberies per 100k inhabitants

435 /100k

41.8 /100k

Burglaries per 100k inhabitants

488 /100k

423 /100k

Thefts per 100k inhabitants

1,639 /100k

1,386 /100k

Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2

114 /M

24 /M

Governance & institutions

Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)

1.46

1.63

Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)

1.27

1.43

Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)

1.02

1.60

Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)

1.39

1.65

Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)

0.02

1.27

Energy

Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)

€0.107/kWh

€0.088/kWh

Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)

€0.053/kWh

—

Climate

Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)

187 m

100 m

Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)

146 days/yr

0 days/yr

Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)

0 days/yr

158 days/yr

Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)

31 days/yr

16 days/yr