NUTS-3 DE80M · Germany
Nordwestmecklenburg
Export region data (CSV)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).
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)
47.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability59
Labour stability12
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).
All indicators · 66 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
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
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
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 72
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.
1,729
CURRENT · EU pctl 74
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,103
CURRENT · EU pctl 94
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
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
0.0 /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
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
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