NUTS-3 DE80L · Germany
Vorpommern-Rügen
Export region data (CSV)Vorpommern-Rügen generates €7.4bn of GDP across 215.2k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 45.8/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by livability and economic scale. Its economy has grown +5.0%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 1.7pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for digital connectivity (91th EU percentile) and weakest for health (22th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
45.8
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth46.2
Livability53.8
Market access36
Economic scale47
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)
32.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability65
Labour stability13
Diversification41
Demographic stability11
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)
43.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density91
Airport access4
Market access36
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)
22.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary11
Lifelong learning20
Knowledge workers24
Scientists & engineers34
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)
74.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58 µg/m³
PM1012.6 µg/m³
NO26 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)
53.8
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy48
Jobs68
Education30.5
Health22
Safety41.7
Connectivity91
Environment75.3
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
46.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.5 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.8 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.9%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.7 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-1.0 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: Public · health · education · 34.9%Diversified · HHI 2308
Agriculture 5.1%Industry 11.5%Construction 6.2%Trade · transport · ICT 21.8%Finance · real estate · prof. 20.5%Public · health · education 34.9%
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 · 66 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€6,796M
2023 · EU pctl 48
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€349M
2023 · EU pctl 78
GVA — industry (B–E)
€779M
2023 · EU pctl 24
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€351M
2023 · EU pctl 14
GVA — construction (F)
€423M
2023 · EU pctl 47
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,485M
2023 · EU pctl 52
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€25,400
2023 · EU pctl 55 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
30,700 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 41
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€34,400
2023 · EU pctl 48
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€13,049M
2023 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€885M
2023 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€30,582M
2023 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,391M
2023 · EU pctl 46
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,369M
2023 · EU pctl 67
Labour market
Employment, total persons
100,230
2023 · EU pctl 44
Self-employed persons
10,630
2023 · EU pctl 37
Employment in manufacturing (C)
5,300
2023 · EU pctl 12
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
78.9%
2025 · EU pctl 59 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
9.3%
2018 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
8,839
2023 · EU pctl 35
Enterprise births
575
2023 · EU pctl 29
Enterprise deaths
695
2023 · EU pctl 39
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.2%
2023 · EU pctl 13
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.4%
2023 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
2.8%
2025 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
28.3%
2025 · EU pctl 22 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
29.4%
2025 · EU pctl 11 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
7.6%
2025 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
19.2%
2025 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
7.4%
2025 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
9,719,172
2024 · EU pctl 94
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
564 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 33 · 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.
2,138
CURRENT · EU pctl 81
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
994
CURRENT · EU pctl 91
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
151
CURRENT · EU pctl 96
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)
126,444
2025 · EU pctl 41
Population aged 65+
63,580
2025 · EU pctl 54
Population aged under 15
25,179
2025 · EU pctl 38
Median age of population
53.2 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 97
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
50.3%
2025 · EU pctl 94
Crude rate of total population change
-4.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 18
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Crude birth rate
5.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 8
Crude death rate
16.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Live births
1,189
2024 · EU pctl 32
Deaths
3,580
2024 · EU pctl 59
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
70.2%
2025 · EU pctl 91
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.39
2024 · EU pctl 49
Population density (persons per km²)
68 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 26
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
21.5%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
79.7 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,126 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
267 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.5 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 36
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
39.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 75
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
286 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 64
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,046 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 64
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
59 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 75 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
17 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 7
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 16
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
53 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 45
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.
13
2024 · EU pctl 25
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 11
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
59
2024 · EU pctl 75
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