NUTS-3 DE80M · Germany
Nordwestmecklenburg
Nordwestmecklenburg generates €5.0bn of GDP across 156.7k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 46/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by livability and economic growth. Its economy has grown +5.1%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 1.7pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for digital connectivity (94th EU percentile) and weakest for health (22th).
Long-run trajectory · EU percentile of real GDP per head, 1995–2024
Mid-field stable35 → 39 EU percentile since 1995 (+3 ranks)
Yearly EU-wide percentile of real GDP per head (ARDECO regional accounts, constant 2020 prices, derived over population). 50 = the EU median that year; percentiles are scale-free, so decades are directly comparable. See the backtest for what long-run prosperity ranks do — and don't — anticipate.
Mandate pillar profile · EU percentiles (screener dimensions)
Freight intensity83
Industrial base69
Labour market62
Governance56
Connectivity55
Air quality54
Quality of life53
Growth momentum51
Resilience48
Cost advantage45
Energy cost36
Economic base32
Talent & skills22
Demographic outlook19
Each bar is this region's EU percentile on a screener pillar (higher = better for siting; cost & energy are inverted so cheap scores high). These are the exact weights you tune in the Site Screener.
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
46
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth51.2
Livability52.8
Market access49
Economic scale31
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)
47.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability59
Labour stability13
Diversification79
Demographic stability40
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)
54.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density94
Airport access21
Market access49
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)
54.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.7 µg/m³
PM1014.9 µg/m³
NO29.5 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)
52.8
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy43.5
Jobs68
Education30.5
Health22
Safety56.3
Connectivity94
Environment55.3
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
51.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.1%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.3%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.8 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.9 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.1%
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: Industry · 28.2%Diversified · HHI 2081
Agriculture 4.3%Industry 28.2%Construction 9%Trade · transport · ICT 14.4%Finance · real estate · prof. 20.1%Public · health · education 24%
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).
Trends · 2009–2023
GDP (current prices)
€5,019M2023
2.0% 1y 5.1% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 31
Real GDP (2020 prices)
€4,201M2025
0.2% 1y 1.0% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 30
Population
156,6922025
0.3% 1y 0.1% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 31
Unemployment rate
3.5%2025
2.8% 1y 1.1% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 28
Employment
60,4702023
1.7% 1y 0.5% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 23
Productivity / employee
€90,2602025
3.3% 1y 7.2% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 66
Gross value added
€4,585M2023
3.5% 1y 5.6% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 31
All indicators · 85 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€4,585M
2023 · EU pctl 31
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€197M
2023 · EU pctl 60
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,292M
2023 · EU pctl 41
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,011M
2023 · EU pctl 41
GVA — construction (F)
€415M
2023 · EU pctl 46
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€659M
2023 · EU pctl 23
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)
28,500 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 32
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€31,900
2023 · EU pctl 42
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)
€923M
2023 · EU pctl 32
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,099M
2023 · EU pctl 36
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€4,201M
2025 · EU pctl 30
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€90,260
2025 · EU pctl 66
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€1,127M
2025 · EU pctl 30
Labour market
Employment, total persons
60,470
2023 · EU pctl 23
Self-employed persons
6,180
2023 · EU pctl 19
Employment in manufacturing (C)
10,840
2023 · EU pctl 32
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
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
3.5%
2025 · EU pctl 28
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
76,600
2025 · EU pctl 30
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
5,175
2023 · EU pctl 20
Enterprise births
333
2023 · EU pctl 15
Enterprise deaths
401
2023 · EU pctl 21
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.1%
2023 · EU pctl 10
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
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE)
0.8%
2023 · EU pctl 29 · 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)
2,205,273
2024 · EU pctl 71
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.
1,731
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
7,387 kt
2025 · EU pctl 51
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,105
CURRENT · EU pctl 94
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²)
26 km/1000km²
2024 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
88
CURRENT · EU pctl 79
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)
94,257
2025 · EU pctl 30
Population aged 65+
42,071
2025 · EU pctl 35
Population aged under 15
20,364
2025 · EU pctl 29
Median age of population
50.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 87
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
44.6%
2025 · EU pctl 84
Crude rate of total population change
-3.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 24
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 60
Crude birth rate
5.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 10
Crude death rate
14.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 86
Live births
871
2024 · EU pctl 20
Deaths
2,270
2024 · EU pctl 38
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
66.2%
2025 · EU pctl 83
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.29
2024 · EU pctl 32
Population density (persons per km²)
76 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 30
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
134,009
2100 · EU pctl 29
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
0.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
22.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 52
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
207 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 49
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
893 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 56
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
59 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 75 · NUTS-2 src
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.78
2022 · EU pctl 59
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.56
2022 · EU pctl 56
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.58
2022 · EU pctl 54
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.82
2022 · EU pctl 57
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.53
2022 · EU pctl 34
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.161/kWh
2025-S2 · EU pctl 64
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.055/kWh
2025-S2 · EU pctl 53
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
49 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 15
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 23
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
56 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 47
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.
15
2024 · EU pctl 52
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
10
2024 · EU pctl 29
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
54
2024 · EU pctl 52
Industrial facilities per 100k inhabitants (E-PRTR)
40.0 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 63
Population in the 100-year river floodplain (% of residents, EFAS × census grid)
0.3%
2021 · EU pctl 9
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