NUTS-3 LT027 · Lithuania
Population
89,9462025
GDP
€1,444M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
7.8%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
77.7%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
4,399.8 km²
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2 regions side-by-side
LT027 · EL513
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Tauragės apskritis (Opportunity 27). Runner-up: Ροδόπη (20). Contrarian pick: Ροδόπη — leads the set on Cost advantage (EU pctl 88).
Strengths
Cost advantage (80) · Talent & skills (66)
Red flags
Economic base (EU bottom 15%)
Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%)
Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%)
#2Ροδόπη
Strengths
Cost advantage (88) · Energy cost (58)
Red flags
Economic base (EU bottom 15%)
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Governance (EU bottom 15%)
Long-run slide: down 14 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute)
Why you might not pick Tauragės apskritis
Economic base (EU bottom 15%); Demographic outlook (EU bottom 15%); Digital readiness (EU bottom 15%). Its weakest dimension is Demographic outlook (EU pctl 0) — Ροδόπη may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Tauragės apskritis 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
27.4
19.8
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
26.3
37.8
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
32.7
21.2
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
38.7
16.0
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
66.3
21.3
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
65.8
51.8
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
3.7% 5y
1.5% 5y
Population
0.9% 5y
0.4% 5y
Unemployment rate
8.3% 5y
9.2% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€16,050
€11,982
Population density
20 /km²
42 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 86 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€1,293M
€1,117M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€139M
€52M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€209M
€296M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€181M
€142M
GVA — construction (F)
€63M
€22M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€473M
€220M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€14,200
€11,100
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
20,400 PPS
14,600 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€16,000
€11,800
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€10,284M
€1,728M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€1,567M
€170M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€21,259M
€3,128M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€97M
€134M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€13M
€15M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€146M
€220M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€263M
€307M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€1,087M
€1,186M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€40,173
€26,234
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€379M
€320M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
38,610
52,850
Self-employed persons
6,230
28,100
Employment in manufacturing (C)
5,240
2,860
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
78.7%
67.7%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
15.5%
23.8%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
7.8%
10.6%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
47,200
49,000
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
7,564
5,755
Enterprise births
1,394
397
Enterprise deaths
1,269
263
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.7%
4.1%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
0.7%
1.2%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
2.9%
1.9%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
0.6%
1.1%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
42.7%
28.0%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
52.3%
42.5%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
9.4%
4.6%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
26.8%
16.6%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.7%
6.3%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
87.8%
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Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
41,714
197,884
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
611 /1k
412 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
2,078 kt
1,921 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,234
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Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
7 km/1000km²
17 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,372
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Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
107
76
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
0
1
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
58,248
69,994
Population aged 65+
20,247
25,165
Population aged under 15
11,451
11,679
Median age of population
47.2 yrs
45.8 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
34.8%
36.0%
Crude rate of total population change
-6.5 /1k
10.1 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
1.4 /1k
17.6 /1k
Crude birth rate
6.4 /1k
5.8 /1k
Crude death rate
14.4 /1k
13.3 /1k
Live births
578
616
Deaths
1,296
1,409
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
54.4%
52.6%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.21
1.13
Population density (persons per km²)
21 /km²
42 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
30,042
79,198
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
30.7%
31.6%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
77.2 yrs
80.4 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
26.2%
26.8%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
511 /100k
435 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,630 /100k
1,154 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
259 /100k
245 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
6.6 /100k
0.9 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
4.4 /100k
5.7 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
8.8 /100k
24.6 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
131 /100k
219 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
49 /M
73 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.94
0.56
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.19
0.42
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.23
0.49
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.86
0.32
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.96
0.24
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.136/kWh
€0.143/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.050/kWh
€0.039/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
76 m
99 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
3 days/yr
68 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
104 days/yr
31 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
13 days/yr