NUTS-3 DE40F · Germany
Prignitz
Export region data (CSV)Prignitz generates €2.7bn of GDP across 75.6k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 43.2/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by livability and market access. Its economy has grown +6.6%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 1.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for digital connectivity (97th EU percentile) and weakest for health (33.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
43.2
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth48.6
Livability62.1
Market access50
Economic scale12
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)
48.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability71
Labour stability27
Diversification61
Demographic stability35
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)
51
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density97
Airport access6
Market access50
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)
76
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.57.9 µg/m³
PM1012.4 µg/m³
NO25.5 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)
62.1
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy53
Jobs67
Education44
Health33.5
Safety63.3
Connectivity97
Environment77
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
48.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+6.6%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.3%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+2.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+2.4 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.1%
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: Industry · 30.7%Diversified · HHI 2188
Agriculture 5.4%Industry 30.7%Construction 5.9%Trade · transport · ICT 14.3%Finance · real estate · prof. 18.3%Public · health · education 25.4%
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)
€2,507M
2023 · EU pctl 13
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€136M
2023 · EU pctl 47
GVA — industry (B–E)
€769M
2023 · EU pctl 24
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€427M
2023 · EU pctl 17
GVA — construction (F)
€149M
2023 · EU pctl 13
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€359M
2023 · EU pctl 8
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)
32,100 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 46
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€36,000
2023 · EU pctl 53
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)
€458M
2023 · EU pctl 12
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€636M
2023 · EU pctl 15
Labour market
Employment, total persons
34,620
2023 · EU pctl 7
Self-employed persons
3,770
2023 · EU pctl 6
Employment in manufacturing (C)
6,530
2023 · EU pctl 17
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)
2,620
2023 · EU pctl 5
Enterprise births
182
2023 · EU pctl 5
Enterprise deaths
229
2023 · EU pctl 7
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.9%
2023 · EU pctl 7
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
3
2012 · EU pctl 20
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
39 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 34
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)
310,865
2024 · EU pctl 19
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.
1,048
CURRENT · EU pctl 56
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,386
CURRENT · EU pctl 97
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
136
CURRENT · EU pctl 94
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
0
CURRENT · EU pctl 0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
43,828
2025 · EU pctl 7
Population aged 65+
22,811
2025 · EU pctl 12
Population aged under 15
8,956
2025 · EU pctl 6
Median age of population
53.8 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 98
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
52.0%
2025 · EU pctl 96
Crude rate of total population change
-7.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 10
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 42
Crude birth rate
5.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 8
Crude death rate
16.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Live births
418
2024 · EU pctl 5
Deaths
1,263
2024 · EU pctl 14
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
72.5%
2025 · EU pctl 93
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.41
2024 · EU pctl 53
Population density (persons per km²)
36 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 11
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
0.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
26.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 57
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
252 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 58
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
963 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 60
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
45 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
51 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 15
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
7 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 44
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
58 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 50
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 1
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
12
2024 · EU pctl 23
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
6
2024 · EU pctl 10
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
57
2024 · EU pctl 66
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