NUTS-3 ES511 · Spain
Barcelona
Export region data (CSV)Barcelona generates €210bn of GDP across 6m residents. Its Opportunity Index of 71.9/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +3.9%/yr over five years, with the employment rate up 5.2pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (94.5th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (18.7th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
71.9
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth68.4
Livability54.2
Market access65
Economic scale100
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)
42.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability42
Labour stability6
Diversification31
Demographic stability91
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)
49.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density32
Airport access52
Market access65
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)
76.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary95
Lifelong learning79
Knowledge workers79
Scientists & engineers54
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
PM2.510.5 µg/m³
PM1020.8 µg/m³
NO219.1 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)
54.2
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy54
Jobs23
Education76
Health94.5
Safety52.3
Connectivity61
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
68.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.9%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.0%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.1 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.3 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.9%
CAGR
Employment rate
+5.2 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-4.2 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. · 29%Diversified · HHI 2378
Agriculture 0.5%Industry 18.6%Construction 4.8%Trade · transport · ICT 28.9%Finance · real estate · prof. 29%Public · health · education 18.4%
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 · 70 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€190,895M
2023 · EU pctl 100
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€880M
2023 · EU pctl 96
GVA — industry (B–E)
€35,438M
2023 · EU pctl 100
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€29,449M
2023 · EU pctl 100
GVA — construction (F)
€9,083M
2023 · EU pctl 100
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€55,126M
2023 · EU pctl 100
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€19,900
2023 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
40,300 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 74
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€35,900
2023 · EU pctl 53
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€57,689M
2023 · EU pctl 94 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€9,484M
2023 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€147,909M
2024 · EU pctl 95 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€55,293M
2023 · EU pctl 99
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€35,076M
2023 · EU pctl 100
Labour market
Employment, total persons
2,865,100
2023 · EU pctl 100
Self-employed persons
368,800
2023 · EU pctl 100
Employment in manufacturing (C)
341,000
2023 · EU pctl 100
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
77.4%
2025 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
19.1%
2025 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
489,832
2023 · EU pctl 100
Enterprise births
46,485
2023 · EU pctl 100
Enterprise deaths
39,035
2023 · EU pctl 100
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.2%
2023 · EU pctl 44
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
391
2012 · EU pctl 99
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
71 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 45
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.9%
2023 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
6.6%
2025 · EU pctl 85 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
46.9%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
57.5%
2025 · EU pctl 95 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
16.2%
2025 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
28.1%
2025 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
8.8%
2025 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
98.5%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
41,221,572
2024 · EU pctl 100
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
450 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 11 · 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.
11,565
CURRENT · EU pctl 100
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
194
CURRENT · EU pctl 32
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
52
CURRENT · EU pctl 48
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
4,007,868
2025 · EU pctl 100
Population aged 65+
1,174,289
2025 · EU pctl 100
Population aged under 15
777,784
2025 · EU pctl 100
Median age of population
44.4 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 31
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
29.3%
2025 · EU pctl 11
Crude rate of total population change
13.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 96
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
15.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Crude birth rate
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Crude death rate
8.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 6
Live births
39,034
2024 · EU pctl 100
Deaths
48,823
2024 · EU pctl 100
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
48.7%
2025 · EU pctl 5
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.04
2024 · EU pctl 4
Population density (persons per km²)
767 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 87
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
21.3%
2025 · EU pctl 60 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
84.3 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 94 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
365 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
806 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 5 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
208 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 52
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
371 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 100
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
342 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 73
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,112 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 68
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
32 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 23 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
368 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 69
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
45 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 90
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
21 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 14
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
6 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 73
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
21
2024 · EU pctl 83
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
19
2024 · EU pctl 84
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 50
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