NUTS-3 DEE05 · Germany
Anhalt-Bitterfeld
Export region data (CSV)Anhalt-Bitterfeld generates €6.0bn of GDP across 153k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 43.8/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +5.0%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate down 0.2pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for digital connectivity (80th EU percentile) and weakest for health (18th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
43.8
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth30
Livability50.3
Market access57
Economic scale38
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)
14
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability6
Labour stability18
Diversification17
Demographic stability15
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)
64.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density80
Airport access57
Market access57
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)
14
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary9
Lifelong learning18
Knowledge workers9
Scientists & engineers20
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)
66
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.3 µg/m³
PM1014 µg/m³
NO26.7 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)
50.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy53
Jobs46.5
Education31.5
Health18
Safety56.3
Connectivity80
Environment67
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
30
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.5 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.8 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.7%
CAGR
Employment rate
-0.2 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.1 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 · 40%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2553
Agriculture 3.9%Industry 40%Construction 4.5%Trade · transport · ICT 14.7%Finance · real estate · prof. 15.5%Public · health · education 21.5%
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)
€5,440M
2023 · EU pctl 38
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€213M
2023 · EU pctl 62
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,178M
2023 · EU pctl 61
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,760M
2023 · EU pctl 62
GVA — construction (F)
€242M
2023 · EU pctl 25
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€798M
2023 · EU pctl 29
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€24,800
2023 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
34,400 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 55
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€38,700
2023 · EU pctl 60
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€15,488M
2023 · EU pctl 55 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,294M
2023 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€40,875M
2023 · EU pctl 60 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€841M
2023 · EU pctl 28
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,168M
2023 · EU pctl 38
Labour market
Employment, total persons
68,630
2023 · EU pctl 28
Self-employed persons
5,350
2023 · EU pctl 15
Employment in manufacturing (C)
17,210
2023 · EU pctl 49
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
78.8%
2025 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
6.7%
2019 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
4,611
2023 · EU pctl 16
Enterprise births
229
2023 · EU pctl 8
Enterprise deaths
353
2023 · EU pctl 17
3-year enterprise survival rate
2.8%
2023 · EU pctl 7
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
7
2012 · EU pctl 34
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
42 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 35
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.4%
2023 · EU pctl 46 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.4%
2025 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
25.4%
2025 · EU pctl 17 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
28.9%
2025 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
7.4%
2025 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
16.9%
2025 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
6.5%
2025 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
296,770
2024 · EU pctl 18
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
573 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 38 · 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.
1,128
CURRENT · EU pctl 59
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
737
CURRENT · EU pctl 80
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
48
CURRENT · EU pctl 43
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)
89,292
2025 · EU pctl 27
Population aged 65+
45,775
2025 · EU pctl 38
Population aged under 15
17,968
2025 · EU pctl 24
Median age of population
53.0 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 97
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
51.3%
2025 · EU pctl 96
Crude rate of total population change
-5.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 17
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 70
Crude birth rate
5.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 4
Crude death rate
17.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 97
Live births
801
2024 · EU pctl 18
Deaths
2,631
2024 · EU pctl 44
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
71.4%
2025 · EU pctl 92
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.35
2024 · EU pctl 41
Population density (persons per km²)
108 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 44
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
24.1%
2025 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
79.5 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,223 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
276 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
33.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 69
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
422 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 82
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,031 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 64
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
52 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
54 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 16
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
11 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 61
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
50 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 41
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 5
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14
2024 · EU pctl 41
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
7
2024 · EU pctl 14
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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