NUTS-3 ES704 · Spain
Fuerteventura
Export region data (CSV)Fuerteventura generates €3.1bn of GDP across 129.1k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 34/100 sits in the lower tier of EU regions, led by economic growth and livability. Its economy has grown +4.1%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 10.6pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (82.5th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
34
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth78.2
Livability40.7
Market access2
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)
26
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability3
Labour stability3
Diversification4
Demographic stability94
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)
32
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density3
Airport access91
Market access2
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)
38.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary61
Lifelong learning65
Knowledge workers14
Scientists & engineers15
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)
44
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.2 µg/m³
PM1033 µg/m³
NO28.7 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)
40.7
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy26.5
Jobs5
Education31.5
Health82.5
Safety54
Connectivity40.5
Environment44.7
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
78.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.1%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.4%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.1 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.1%
CAGR
Employment rate
+10.6 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-9.1 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 · 46.9%Moderately concentrated · HHI 3124
Agriculture 0.9%Industry 4.5%Construction 6.2%Trade · transport · ICT 46.9%Finance · real estate · prof. 22%Public · health · education 19.5%
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)
€2,878M
2023 · EU pctl 16
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€27M
2023 · EU pctl 13
GVA — industry (B–E)
€129M
2023 · EU pctl 2
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€50M
2023 · EU pctl 2
GVA — construction (F)
€178M
2023 · EU pctl 17
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,350M
2023 · EU pctl 47
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€15,300
2023 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
27,400 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 29
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€24,400
2023 · EU pctl 27
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€8,461M
2023 · EU pctl 26 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€298M
2023 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€28,532M
2024 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€633M
2023 · EU pctl 20
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€562M
2023 · EU pctl 12
Labour market
Employment, total persons
52,700
2023 · EU pctl 18
Self-employed persons
7,800
2023 · EU pctl 27
Employment in manufacturing (C)
900
2023 · EU pctl 1
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
73.1%
2025 · EU pctl 22 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
29.5%
2025 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
9,292
2023 · EU pctl 37
Enterprise births
1,131
2023 · EU pctl 48
Enterprise deaths
821
2023 · EU pctl 44
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.5%
2023 · EU pctl 53
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
1
2009 · EU pctl 7
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
10 /M pop
2009 · EU pctl 20
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.6%
2023 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
2.1%
2025 · EU pctl 8 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
36.3%
2025 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
43.7%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
13.1%
2025 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
17.6%
2025 · EU pctl 14 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
5.8%
2025 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
97.3%
2025 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
15,743,160
2024 · EU pctl 97
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
609 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 57 · 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 3
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
16
CURRENT · EU pctl 9
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)
95,341
2025 · EU pctl 30
Population aged 65+
16,814
2025 · EU pctl 7
Population aged under 15
16,925
2025 · EU pctl 21
Median age of population
42.3 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 14
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
17.6%
2025 · EU pctl 0
Crude rate of total population change
18.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 98
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
16.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 96
Crude birth rate
6.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 30
Crude death rate
4.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Live births
866
2024 · EU pctl 20
Deaths
588
2024 · EU pctl 3
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
35.4%
2025 · EU pctl 0
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
0.98
2024 · EU pctl 2
Population density (persons per km²)
77 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 31
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
31.2%
2025 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.9 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
290 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
826 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
214 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 86
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
68.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 89
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
234 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 55
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
501 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 31
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
31 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
222 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 51
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
26 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 82
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 0
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
0 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 0
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
33
2024 · EU pctl 99
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
9
2024 · EU pctl 25
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
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