NUTS-3 DE406 · Germany
Dahme-Spreewald
Export region data (CSV)Dahme-Spreewald generates €8.5bn of GDP across 178.8k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 56.5/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic growth and market access. Its economy has grown +5.8%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 1.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for digital connectivity (86th EU percentile) and weakest for safety (27.7th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
56.5
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth59.6
Livability55.4
Market access58
Economic scale53
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)
42
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability29
Labour stability27
Diversification22
Demographic stability90
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)
69.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density86
Airport access65
Market access58
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)
27
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary17
Lifelong learning10
Knowledge workers43
Scientists & engineers38
Young tertiary attainment (25–34), adult lifelong learning, knowledge-worker share and scientists & engineers — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = deeper talent pool. Experimental.
Clean-Air Score · air-quality livability (experimental)
59.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.9 µg/m³
PM1014.3 µg/m³
NO27.6 µg/m³
PM2.5, PM10 & NO2 annual means from official monitoring networks, inverted (lower pollution = higher) and EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = cleaner air; ground-level ozone is shown separately. Experimental.
Quality of Life · composite (experimental)
55.4
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy69.5
Jobs67
Education44
Health33.5
Safety27.7
Connectivity86
Environment60.3
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
59.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.8%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.6%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.2 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+1.6 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.9%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.0 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.4 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 · 31.5%Diversified · HHI 2466
Agriculture 1.6%Industry 11.8%Construction 5.8%Trade · transport · ICT 31.5%Finance · real estate · prof. 31.1%Public · health · education 18.2%
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 · 68 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€7,730M
2023 · EU pctl 54
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€126M
2023 · EU pctl 45
GVA — industry (B–E)
€911M
2023 · EU pctl 29
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€550M
2023 · EU pctl 24
GVA — construction (F)
€448M
2023 · EU pctl 49
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,434M
2023 · EU pctl 70
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€26,000
2023 · EU pctl 60 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
42,600 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 79
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€47,800
2023 · EU pctl 81
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€23,042M
2023 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,607M
2023 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€47,281M
2023 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,406M
2023 · EU pctl 67
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,405M
2023 · EU pctl 46
Labour market
Employment, total persons
83,550
2023 · EU pctl 37
Self-employed persons
8,530
2023 · EU pctl 30
Employment in manufacturing (C)
8,360
2023 · EU pctl 23
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
80.0%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
7.3%
2019 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
7,051
2023 · EU pctl 29
Enterprise births
628
2023 · EU pctl 32
Enterprise deaths
673
2023 · EU pctl 37
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.7%
2023 · EU pctl 27
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
20
2012 · EU pctl 55
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
124 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 59
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.5%
2023 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.1%
2025 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
32.2%
2025 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
31.8%
2025 · EU pctl 17 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
6.4%
2025 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
21.9%
2025 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
7.6%
2025 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,254,457
2024 · EU pctl 72
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
584 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 41 · 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.
1,478
CURRENT · EU pctl 69
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
827
CURRENT · EU pctl 86
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
40
CURRENT · EU pctl 34
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)
108,724
2025 · EU pctl 35
Population aged 65+
45,028
2025 · EU pctl 38
Population aged under 15
25,041
2025 · EU pctl 38
Median age of population
48.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 74
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
41.4%
2025 · EU pctl 74
Crude rate of total population change
6.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 81
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
12.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 91
Crude birth rate
6.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 27
Crude death rate
12.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 65
Live births
1,190
2024 · EU pctl 32
Deaths
2,241
2024 · EU pctl 37
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
64.4%
2025 · EU pctl 78
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.42
2024 · EU pctl 54
Population density (persons per km²)
81 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 32
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
19.6%
2025 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.0 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,113 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
245 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 72 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 87
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
50.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 82
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
339 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 73
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,431 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 80
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
45 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
45 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 14
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
11 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 63
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
56 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 48
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 11
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14
2024 · EU pctl 45
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
8
2024 · EU pctl 18
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
53
2024 · EU pctl 45
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