NUTS-3 DEB23 · Germany
Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm
Export region data (CSV)Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm generates €3.7bn of GDP across 99.8k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 58/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +5.3%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 4.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (98.5th EU percentile) and weakest for health (45.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
58
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth57.6
Livability71.5
Market access82
Economic scale21
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)
61.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability72
Labour stability75
Diversification45
Demographic stability53
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)
75.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density92
Airport access53
Market access82
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)
30.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary31
Lifelong learning33
Knowledge workers36
Scientists & engineers23
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)
98.5
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 2/3 pollutants
PM2.5—
PM107.5 µg/m³
NO22.6 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)
71.5
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy60.5
Jobs90
Education63
Health45.5
Safety51
Connectivity92
Environment98.5
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
57.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.3%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.8 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+1.1 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.1%
CAGR
Employment rate
+4.1 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 · 34.8%Diversified · HHI 2283
Agriculture 3.6%Industry 34.8%Construction 7.4%Trade · transport · ICT 14.1%Finance · real estate · prof. 21.5%Public · health · education 18.6%
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)
€3,379M
2023 · EU pctl 21
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€123M
2023 · EU pctl 44
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,175M
2023 · EU pctl 37
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€925M
2023 · EU pctl 39
GVA — construction (F)
€250M
2023 · EU pctl 26
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€477M
2023 · EU pctl 14
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€27,600
2023 · EU pctl 72 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
32,900 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 49
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€36,900
2023 · EU pctl 55
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€5,179M
2023 · EU pctl 13 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€716M
2023 · EU pctl 17 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€10,498M
2023 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€726M
2023 · EU pctl 24
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€628M
2023 · EU pctl 15
Labour market
Employment, total persons
41,480
2023 · EU pctl 11
Self-employed persons
4,540
2023 · EU pctl 10
Employment in manufacturing (C)
9,860
2023 · EU pctl 28
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
82.2%
2025 · EU pctl 81 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
3,572
2023 · EU pctl 10
Enterprise births
263
2023 · EU pctl 10
Enterprise deaths
276
2023 · EU pctl 11
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.6%
2023 · EU pctl 25
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
5
2012 · EU pctl 26
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
51 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 39
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
3.2%
2023 · EU pctl 85 · 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)
35.2%
2025 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
9.2%
2025 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
21.2%
2025 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
6.7%
2025 · EU pctl 23 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
854,580
2024 · EU pctl 49
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
667 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 85 · 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.
1,003
CURRENT · EU pctl 54
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,005
CURRENT · EU pctl 92
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
52
CURRENT · EU pctl 47
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
63,215
2025 · EU pctl 15
Population aged 65+
22,042
2025 · EU pctl 11
Population aged under 15
14,531
2025 · EU pctl 17
Median age of population
46.1 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 49
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
34.9%
2025 · EU pctl 38
Crude rate of total population change
-9.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 5
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-6.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 1
Crude birth rate
8.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Crude death rate
11.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 55
Live births
844
2024 · EU pctl 19
Deaths
1,190
2024 · EU pctl 12
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
57.9%
2025 · EU pctl 40
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.51
2024 · EU pctl 73
Population density (persons per km²)
62 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 23
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
25.8%
2025 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.8 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
986 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 42 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
246 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 75 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 68
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
27.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 60
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
155 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 37
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
766 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 47
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
36 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
516 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 82
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 21
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
75 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 69
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 41
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
8
2024 · EU pctl 1
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
3
2024 · EU pctl 2
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
64
2024 · EU pctl 87
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