NUTS-3 DEF06 · Germany
Herzogtum Lauenburg
Export region data (CSV)Herzogtum Lauenburg generates €5.8bn of GDP across 206.2k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 51.3/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +4.6%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 1.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (82th EU percentile) and weakest for health (42.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
51.3
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth46
Livability61
Market access62
Economic scale36
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)
59
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability37
Labour stability54
Diversification58
Demographic stability87
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)
67
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density78
Airport access61
Market access62
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)
35.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary20
Lifelong learning33
Knowledge workers39
Scientists & engineers50
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)
81
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.57 µg/m³
PM1012.2 µg/m³
NO26.5 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)
61
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy51.5
Jobs66.5
Education42.5
Health42.5
Safety64.3
Connectivity78
Environment82
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
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.6%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.0%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.6 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.4 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.8%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.0 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.2 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: Finance · real estate · prof. · 27.3%Diversified · HHI 2202
Agriculture 2%Industry 20.1%Construction 6.6%Trade · transport · ICT 17.7%Finance · real estate · prof. 27.3%Public · health · education 26.3%
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)
€5,316M
2023 · EU pctl 37
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€105M
2023 · EU pctl 39
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,068M
2023 · EU pctl 35
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€771M
2023 · EU pctl 33
GVA — construction (F)
€352M
2023 · EU pctl 39
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€942M
2023 · EU pctl 34
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€28,800
2023 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
25,300 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 23
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€28,400
2023 · EU pctl 34
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€27,063M
2023 · EU pctl 75 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,460M
2023 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€61,661M
2023 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,452M
2023 · EU pctl 49
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,397M
2023 · EU pctl 46
Labour market
Employment, total persons
74,060
2023 · EU pctl 31
Self-employed persons
8,710
2023 · EU pctl 31
Employment in manufacturing (C)
9,380
2023 · EU pctl 27
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
80.3%
2025 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
6.0%
2019 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
7,179
2023 · EU pctl 29
Enterprise births
641
2023 · EU pctl 33
Enterprise deaths
664
2023 · EU pctl 37
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.6%
2023 · EU pctl 24
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
56
2012 · EU pctl 79
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
301 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 86
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.5%
2023 · EU pctl 49 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.0%
2025 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
31.8%
2025 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
32.4%
2025 · EU pctl 20 · 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)
21.5%
2025 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
8.6%
2025 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
583,267
2024 · EU pctl 36
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
593 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 47 · 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.
1,459
CURRENT · EU pctl 69
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
707
CURRENT · EU pctl 78
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
45
CURRENT · EU pctl 39
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)
127,875
2025 · EU pctl 42
Population aged 65+
48,101
2025 · EU pctl 40
Population aged under 15
30,259
2025 · EU pctl 45
Median age of population
47.2 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 61
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
37.6%
2025 · EU pctl 56
Crude rate of total population change
3.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 70
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
8.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 82
Crude birth rate
7.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 51
Crude death rate
12.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 69
Live births
1,603
2024 · EU pctl 44
Deaths
2,640
2024 · EU pctl 44
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
61.3%
2025 · EU pctl 65
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.48
2024 · EU pctl 67
Population density (persons per km²)
168 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 60
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
20.9%
2025 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.8 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,015 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
251 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.5 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 38
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
22.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 52
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
258 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 59
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
837 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 53
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
29 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
21 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 7
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 26
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
52 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 42
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 9
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
12
2024 · EU pctl 21
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 13
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
58
2024 · EU pctl 69
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