NUTS-3 ES521 · Spain
Alicante/Alacant
Export region data (CSV)Alicante/Alacant generates €46bn of GDP across 2m residents. Its Opportunity Index of 64.9/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +5.0%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 5.7pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (87.3th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (9.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
64.9
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth78.2
Livability53.3
Market access34
Economic scale94
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)
45.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability36
Labour stability5
Diversification44
Demographic stability98
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 density28
Airport access87
Market access34
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)
60.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary88
Lifelong learning84
Knowledge workers44
Scientists & engineers25
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)
87
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.55.8 µg/m³
PM1010.1 µg/m³
NO28.4 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)
53.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy27
Jobs9.5
Education51.5
Health79
Safety61
Connectivity58
Environment87.3
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
78.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.4%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.6 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.8 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+5.7 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-4.6 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 · 28.8%Diversified · HHI 2286
Agriculture 1.3%Industry 12.1%Construction 8.1%Trade · transport · ICT 28.8%Finance · real estate · prof. 26.7%Public · health · education 23%
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)
€42,408M
2023 · EU pctl 94
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€562M
2023 · EU pctl 90
GVA — industry (B–E)
€5,117M
2023 · EU pctl 88
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€4,404M
2023 · EU pctl 89
GVA — construction (F)
€3,421M
2023 · EU pctl 97
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€12,231M
2023 · EU pctl 96
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€16,000
2023 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
26,400 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 27
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€23,500
2023 · EU pctl 25
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€25,331M
2023 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€4,983M
2023 · EU pctl 83 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€70,224M
2024 · EU pctl 83 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€11,312M
2023 · EU pctl 94
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€9,766M
2023 · EU pctl 95
Labour market
Employment, total persons
768,100
2023 · EU pctl 97
Self-employed persons
130,800
2023 · EU pctl 99
Employment in manufacturing (C)
81,200
2023 · EU pctl 96
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
74.1%
2025 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
30.5%
2025 · EU pctl 93 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
153,279
2023 · EU pctl 98
Enterprise births
16,355
2023 · EU pctl 97
Enterprise deaths
12,875
2023 · EU pctl 97
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.9%
2023 · EU pctl 63
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
22
2012 · EU pctl 57
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
12 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 22
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.2%
2023 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.3%
2025 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
38.1%
2025 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
53.1%
2025 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
18.3%
2025 · EU pctl 84 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
22.2%
2025 · EU pctl 44 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
7.0%
2025 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
98.0%
2025 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
32,579,948
2024 · EU pctl 99
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
510 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 23 · 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.
1,869
CURRENT · EU pctl 77
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
92
CURRENT · EU pctl 28
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
19
CURRENT · EU pctl 13
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
1,337,664
2025 · EU pctl 99
Population aged 65+
426,265
2025 · EU pctl 99
Population aged under 15
269,637
2025 · EU pctl 98
Median age of population
45.9 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 48
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
31.9%
2025 · EU pctl 21
Crude rate of total population change
20.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 99
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
21.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 99
Crude birth rate
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Crude death rate
8.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 8
Live births
13,207
2024 · EU pctl 97
Deaths
16,946
2024 · EU pctl 99
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
52.0%
2025 · EU pctl 10
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.15
2024 · EU pctl 14
Population density (persons per km²)
349 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 77
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
30.7%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.5 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 83 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
220 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 5 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
900 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
213 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 70
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
110 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
388 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 79
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
450 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 28
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
30 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
216 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
68 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 96
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 2
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 43
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
10
2024 · EU pctl 7
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
8
2024 · EU pctl 22
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
66
2024 · EU pctl 91
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