NUTS-3 HR050 · Croatia
Population
777,3592025
GDP
€29,117M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
80.8%2025
Active firms· FR-only
—
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
—
Area
636.6 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
HR050 · ES512
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Girona (Opportunity 68). Runner-up: Grad Zagreb (60). Contrarian pick: Grad Zagreb — leads the set on Economic base (EU pctl 91).
Strengths
Economic base (91) · Talent & skills (86)
Red flags
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Governance (EU bottom 15%)
Air quality (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Girona
Its weakest dimension is Labour market (EU pctl 31) — Grad Zagreb may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Girona 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
59.7
68.2
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
30.8
44.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
46.1
58.5
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
1.5
52.5
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
54.7
53.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
85.5
76.8
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
72.8
81.4
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
5.7% 5y
7.0% 5y
Population
0.1% 5y
1.3% 5y
Unemployment rate
8.6% 5y
7.8% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€37,456
€35,111
Population density
1,221 /km²
140 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€24,145M
€26,607M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€32M
€725M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,735M
€4,516M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,100M
€4,080M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,181M
€1,625M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€8,652M
€8,323M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€13,100
€19,900
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
52,500 PPS
40,200 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€37,500
€35,800
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€7,329M
€57,689M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€461M
€9,484M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€14,255M
€147,909M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,092M
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GVA — information & communication (J)
€2,634M
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GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€6,332M
€6,596M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€5,213M
€4,823M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€23,326M
€27,668M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€80,212
€79,614
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€8,099M
€6,735M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
387,180
393,600
Self-employed persons
32,030
61,500
Employment in manufacturing (C)
41,510
58,000
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
77.3%
77.4%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
15.3%
19.1%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
3.0%
8.4%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
395,500
434,200
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
67,348
67,916
Enterprise births
8,203
6,157
Enterprise deaths
3,641
5,177
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.6%
4.1%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
2.2%
1.9%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
12.2%
6.6%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
2.8%
1.5%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
51.7%
46.9%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
58.9%
57.5%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
10.8%
16.2%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
41.8%
28.1%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
12.9%
8.8%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
92.0%
98.5%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,721,617
24,474,095
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
511 /1k
450 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
9,330 kt
25,266 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
2,102
1,036
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
76 km/1000km²
46 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
270
125
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
9
19
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
502,831
553,202
Population aged 65+
161,220
159,287
Population aged under 15
113,308
117,940
Median age of population
43.1 yrs
44.2 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
32.1%
28.8%
Crude rate of total population change
6.8 /1k
11.3 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
9.0 /1k
12.5 /1k
Crude birth rate
8.9 /1k
7.0 /1k
Crude death rate
11.1 /1k
8.2 /1k
Live births
6,862
5,758
Deaths
8,635
6,731
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
54.6%
50.1%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.33
1.19
Population density (persons per km²)
—
140 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
—
865,193
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
12.4%
21.3%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
80.2 yrs
84.3 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
11.4%
14.3%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
695 /100k
360 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,456 /100k
806 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
310 /100k
208 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.4 /100k
1.1 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
62.8 /100k
146 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
289 /100k
524 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
453 /100k
846 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
22 /M
32 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.72
1.14
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.30
0.84
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.43
0.96
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.11
0.78
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.73
0.16
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.126/kWh
€0.106/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.048/kWh
€0.048/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
113 m
101 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
25 days/yr
54 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
66 days/yr
14 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
10 days/yr
7 days/yr