NUTS-3 EL434 · Greece
Χανιά
Chania
Export region data (CSV)Χανιά generates €3.0bn of GDP across 156.7k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 28.5/100 sits in the lower tier of EU regions, led by economic growth and livability. Its economy has grown +5.0%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 13.5pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (64th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (2th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
28.5
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth66
Livability32
Market access1
Economic scale15
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)
19.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability8
Labour stability4
Diversification25
Demographic stability42
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)
28.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density2
Airport access82
Market access1
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)
17.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary37
Lifelong learning1
Knowledge workers14
Scientists & engineers19
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)
18.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.514 µg/m³
PM1027 µg/m³
NO213.8 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)
32
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy18
Jobs32.5
Education38.5
Health64
Safety50.3
Connectivity2
Environment18.7
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
66
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.1%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.9 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.9 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.1%
CAGR
Employment rate
+13.5 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-12.2 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: Trade · transport · ICT · 37.8%Diversified · HHI 2430
Agriculture 10.1%Industry 9%Construction 2.8%Trade · transport · ICT 37.8%Finance · real estate · prof. 19.6%Public · health · education 20.7%
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 · 71 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€2,619M
2023 · EU pctl 14
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€266M
2023 · EU pctl 69
GVA — industry (B–E)
€235M
2023 · EU pctl 6
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€148M
2023 · EU pctl 5
GVA — construction (F)
€74M
2023 · EU pctl 6
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€989M
2023 · EU pctl 36
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€12,800
2023 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
23,400 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 17
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€19,000
2023 · EU pctl 18
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€2,427M
2023 · EU pctl 5 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€104M
2023 · EU pctl 3 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€4,111M
2023 · EU pctl 5 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€306M
2023 · EU pctl 20
GVA — information & communication (J)
€31M
2023 · EU pctl 20
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€513M
2023 · EU pctl 15
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€542M
2023 · EU pctl 11
Labour market
Employment, total persons
78,290
2023 · EU pctl 35
Self-employed persons
24,110
2023 · EU pctl 63
Employment in manufacturing (C)
4,040
2023 · EU pctl 8
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
72.0%
2025 · EU pctl 17 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
12.9%
2025 · EU pctl 44 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
16,098
2023 · EU pctl 53
Enterprise births
1,250
2023 · EU pctl 51
Enterprise deaths
402
2023 · EU pctl 21
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.6%
2023 · EU pctl 25
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
1
2012 · EU pctl 4
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
3 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 8
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.7%
2023 · EU pctl 54 · 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
28.5%
2025 · EU pctl 23 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
36.5%
2025 · EU pctl 37 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
3.1%
2025 · EU pctl 1 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
17.7%
2025 · EU pctl 14 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
6.4%
2025 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
9,693,128
2024 · EU pctl 94
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
500 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 21 · 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
CURRENT · EU pctl 0
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1
CURRENT · EU pctl 2
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
24
CURRENT · EU pctl 18
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)
100,093
2025 · EU pctl 32
Population aged 65+
33,055
2025 · EU pctl 26
Population aged under 15
23,528
2025 · EU pctl 35
Median age of population
45.3 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 41
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
33.0%
2025 · EU pctl 27
Crude rate of total population change
1.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 55
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 42
Crude birth rate
8.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 64
Crude death rate
10.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 33
Live births
1,296
2024 · EU pctl 37
Deaths
1,668
2024 · EU pctl 25
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
56.5%
2025 · EU pctl 30
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.54
2024 · EU pctl 79
Population density (persons per km²)
66 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 25
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
18.2%
2025 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.4 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
395 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
966 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 37 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
213 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 48
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
5.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 9
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
35.2 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 5
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
215 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 13
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
71 /M pop
2022 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
187 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 46
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
26 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 81
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 2
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
17 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 93
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
27
2024 · EU pctl 96
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14
2024 · EU pctl 59
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
99
2024 · EU pctl 100
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