NUTS-3 BG341 · Bulgaria
Бургас
Burgas
Export region data (CSV)Бургас generates €4.6bn of GDP across 388.9k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 30.4/100 sits in the lower tier of EU regions, led by economic growth and economic scale. Its economy has grown +10.4%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 2.4pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (40th EU percentile) and weakest for health (2th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
30.4
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth69.8
Livability20.7
Market access4
Economic scale27
Equal-weighted mean of four EU-percentile pillars (deliberately orthogonal: growth=trend, livability=quality, market=distance-weighted demand proxy, scale=absolute GDP). Experimental — a screening triage, not investment advice.
Resilience Index · downside / risk lens (experimental)
36.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability2
Labour stability21
Diversification45
Demographic stability78
Inverse of GDP-growth & unemployment volatility (since 2008, incl. 2009/2020 shocks), economic diversification (inverse HHI) and population stability — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher withstands downturns better. Experimental.
Connectivity Index · transit · air · market access (experimental)
35.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density24
Airport access79
Market access4
Public-transport stop density, proximity to a major airport, and gravity access to surrounding economic mass — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = better-connected. Experimental.
Talent & Human Capital Index · skills base (experimental)
21.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary26
Lifelong learning3
Knowledge workers37
Scientists & engineers19
Young tertiary attainment (25–34), adult lifelong learning, knowledge-worker share and scientists & engineers — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = deeper talent pool. Experimental.
Quality of Life · composite (experimental)
20.7
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy3.5
Jobs36.5
Education17
Health2
Safety27
Connectivity19
Environment40
Equal-weighted percentile across 6 pillars vs all EU NUTS-3; lower-is-better indicators (crime, unemployment, mortality) inverted. Experimental — regional screening only.
Growth momentum · trend analytics
69.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+10.4%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+9.0%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+2.4 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.1 pp
5-yr change
Compound annual growth to the latest available year vs all EU NUTS-3; GDP is nominal EUR (“vs country avg” removes most national inflation). Screening signal, not a forecast.
Economic structure · gross value added by sector
Dominant: Trade · transport · ICT · 33%Diversified · HHI 2281
Agriculture 2.6%Industry 18.2%Construction 5.8%Trade · transport · ICT 33%Finance · real estate · prof. 18.9%Public · health · education 21.5%
Share of total GVA (latest year). HHI = sum of squared sector shares ×10,000; higher means a more concentrated, single-sector-dependent economy (more cyclicality risk).
All indicators · 71 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€4,026M
2024 · EU pctl 26
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€106M
2024 · EU pctl 39
GVA — industry (B–E)
€733M
2024 · EU pctl 23
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€715M
2024 · EU pctl 31
GVA — construction (F)
€232M
2024 · EU pctl 24
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,330M
2024 · EU pctl 46
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€6,200
2023 · EU pctl 0 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
19,300 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 7
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€11,900
2024 · EU pctl 3
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€1,872M
2023 · EU pctl 4 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€382M
2023 · EU pctl 8 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€4,209M
2023 · EU pctl 5 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€526M
2024 · EU pctl 33
GVA — information & communication (J)
€76M
2024 · EU pctl 37
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€760M
2024 · EU pctl 25
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€865M
2024 · EU pctl 26
Labour market
Employment, total persons
197,400
2023 · EU pctl 73
Self-employed persons
64,500
2023 · EU pctl 92
Employment in manufacturing (C)
20,420
2023 · EU pctl 56
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
72.5%
2025 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
16.3%
2025 · EU pctl 58 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
28,984
2023 · EU pctl 72
Enterprise births
3,487
2023 · EU pctl 77
Enterprise deaths
5,187
2023 · EU pctl 89
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.1%
2023 · EU pctl 68
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
1
2009 · EU pctl 6
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
2 /M pop
2009 · EU pctl 5
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.3%
2023 · EU pctl 2 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
2.4%
2025 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
30.9%
2025 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
33.5%
2025 · EU pctl 26 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
4.3%
2025 · EU pctl 3 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
21.4%
2025 · EU pctl 37 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
6.4%
2025 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
91.6%
2025 · EU pctl 14 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
9,905,089
2024 · EU pctl 94
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
450 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 11 · NUTS-2 src
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
87
CURRENT · EU pctl 25
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
22
CURRENT · EU pctl 24
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
28
CURRENT · EU pctl 21
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
CURRENT · EU pctl 15
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
242,905
2025 · EU pctl 69
Population aged 65+
89,301
2025 · EU pctl 69
Population aged under 15
56,713
2025 · EU pctl 70
Median age of population
46.9 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 57
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
36.8%
2025 · EU pctl 51
Crude rate of total population change
11.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 94
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
17.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 96
Crude birth rate
7.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 53
Crude death rate
13.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 75
Live births
3,037
2024 · EU pctl 71
Deaths
5,152
2024 · EU pctl 75
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
60.1%
2025 · EU pctl 57
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.69
2024 · EU pctl 94
Population density (persons per km²)
51 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 17
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
35.8%
2025 · EU pctl 97 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
75.7 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 2 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
793 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 96 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
2,099 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
215 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
3.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 98
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
14.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 34
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
26.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 4
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
466 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 29
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
79 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
11 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 6
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
39 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 87
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
38 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 29
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
6 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 70
Environment
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14
2024 · EU pctl 60
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
56
2024 · EU pctl 63
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