NUTS-3 EE004 · Estonia
Lääne-Eesti
Export region data (CSV)Lääne-Eesti generates €2.8bn of GDP across 148.3k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 33/100 sits in the lower tier of EU regions, led by economic growth and livability. Its economy has grown +6.0%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 3.5pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (100th EU percentile) and weakest for economy (17th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
33
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth56
Livability53
Market access10
Economic scale13
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)
38.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability4
Labour stability21
Diversification91
Demographic stability39
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)
41.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density100
Airport access15
Market access10
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)
69.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary64
Lifelong learning90
Knowledge workers64
Scientists & engineers61
Young tertiary attainment (25–34), adult lifelong learning, knowledge-worker share and scientists & engineers — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = deeper talent pool. Experimental.
Quality of Life · composite (experimental)
53
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy17
Jobs46
Education71
Health17.5
Safety44.7
Connectivity75
Environment100
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
56
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+6.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+7.4%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-1.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.1 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.1%
CAGR
Employment rate
+3.5 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.5 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. · 23.1%Diversified · HHI 1941
Agriculture 5.4%Industry 22%Construction 9.5%Trade · transport · ICT 18.8%Finance · real estate · prof. 23.1%Public · health · education 21.2%
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)
€2,434M
2024 · EU pctl 12
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€130M
2024 · EU pctl 46
GVA — industry (B–E)
€535M
2024 · EU pctl 15
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€427M
2024 · EU pctl 17
GVA — construction (F)
€231M
2024 · EU pctl 24
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€458M
2024 · EU pctl 13
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€15,400
2024 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
20,300 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 9
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€18,700
2024 · EU pctl 17
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€9,522M
2024 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€822M
2024 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€20,179M
2024 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€365M
2024 · EU pctl 24
GVA — information & communication (J)
€34M
2024 · EU pctl 22
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€563M
2024 · EU pctl 17
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€517M
2024 · EU pctl 10
Labour market
Employment, total persons
60,950
2024 · EU pctl 23
Self-employed persons
8,310
2024 · EU pctl 29
Employment in manufacturing (C)
12,060
2024 · EU pctl 36
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
81.7%
2025 · EU pctl 77 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
20.7%
2025 · EU pctl 73 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
15,387
2023 · EU pctl 52
Enterprise births
1,998
2023 · EU pctl 62
Enterprise deaths
3,846
2023 · EU pctl 83
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.7%
2023 · EU pctl 58
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
1
2012 · EU pctl 12
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
9 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 19
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.0%
2024 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
7.3%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
42.1%
2025 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
44.3%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
23.8%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
25.5%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
9.2%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
95.4%
2025 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,380,385
2024 · EU pctl 60
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
635 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 70 · 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.
3,488
CURRENT · EU pctl 92
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
2,353
CURRENT · EU pctl 100
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
99
CURRENT · EU pctl 85
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)
90,905
2025 · EU pctl 28
Population aged 65+
34,930
2025 · EU pctl 29
Population aged under 15
22,420
2025 · EU pctl 33
Median age of population
45.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 46
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
38.4%
2025 · EU pctl 60
Crude rate of total population change
-4.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 18
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
1.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Crude birth rate
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Crude death rate
13.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 74
Live births
981
2024 · EU pctl 24
Deaths
1,965
2024 · EU pctl 31
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
63.1%
2025 · EU pctl 74
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.26
2024 · EU pctl 28
Population density (persons per km²)
13 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 2
Social
Life expectancy at birth
79.4 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,322 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 81 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
238 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 80
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
2.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 3
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
401 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
50 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
14 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 7
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 11
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
119 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 92
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 9
Environment
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
1
2024 · EU pctl 0
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
71
2024 · EU pctl 95
Similar regions · nearest peers on standardised NUTS-3 indicators
Other Estonia regions