NUTS-3 FI1C1 · Finland
Varsinais-Suomi
Varsinais-Suomi generates €23bn of GDP across 494.8k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 49.6/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and livability. Its economy has grown +3.4%/yr over five years, with the employment rate up 0.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (95.7th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (18.5th).
Long-run trajectory · EU percentile of real GDP per head, 1995–2024
Enduring leader78 → 78 EU percentile since 1995 (-1 ranks)
Yearly EU-wide percentile of real GDP per head (ARDECO regional accounts, constant 2020 prices, derived over population). 50 = the EU median that year; percentiles are scale-free, so decades are directly comparable. See the backtest for what long-run prosperity ranks do — and don't — anticipate.
Mandate pillar profile · EU percentiles (screener dimensions)
Energy cost99
Governance98
Air quality96
Digital readiness74
Industrial base71
Resilience70
Economic base69
Talent & skills64
Connectivity63
Quality of life58
Cost advantage53
Freight intensity45
Demographic outlook35
Growth momentum29
Labour market29
Each bar is this region's EU percentile on a screener pillar (higher = better for siting; cost & energy are inverted so cheap scores high). These are the exact weights you tune in the Site Screener.
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
49.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth29.2
Livability58.3
Market access27
Economic scale84
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)
69.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability62
Labour stability73
Diversification63
Demographic stability81
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)
63
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density88
Airport access74
Market access27
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)
64
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary31
Lifelong learning94
Knowledge workers73
Scientists & engineers58
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)
95.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.54.3 µg/m³
PM108.3 µg/m³
NO25.3 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)
58.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy58
Jobs18.5
Education65.5
Health59.5
Safety30
Connectivity81
Environment95.7
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
29.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.4%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.1 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.4 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
0.0 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+1.9 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. · 25.4%Diversified · HHI 2169
Agriculture 2.7%Industry 24.4%Construction 6%Trade · transport · ICT 17.3%Finance · real estate · prof. 25.4%Public · health · education 24.2%
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).
Trends · 2009–2024
GDP (current prices)
€22,820M2024
2.6% 1y 3.4% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 84
Real GDP (2020 prices)
€20,032M2025
0.2% 1y 1.0% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 84
Population
494,8192025
0.8% 1y 0.6% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 77
Unemployment rate
9.5%2025
8.0% 1y 4.3% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 92
Employment
230,3202024
0.4% 1y 0.4% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 77
Productivity / employee
€101,1902025
2.1% 1y 3.2% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 82
Gross value added
€19,958M2024
2.5% 1y 3.6% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 83
Dwelling price
€2,293/m²2025
2.9% 1y 0.4% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 88
All indicators · 90 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€19,958M
2024 · EU pctl 83
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€542M
2024 · EU pctl 89
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,875M
2024 · EU pctl 87
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€4,495M
2024 · EU pctl 90
GVA — construction (F)
€1,194M
2024 · EU pctl 84
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€3,453M
2024 · EU pctl 79
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€23,700
2023 · EU pctl 47 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
38,500 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 69
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€46,300
2024 · EU pctl 78
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€8,779M
2023 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,548M
2023 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€22,877M
2023 · EU pctl 35 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€2,735M
2024 · EU pctl 82
GVA — information & communication (J)
€717M
2024 · EU pctl 80
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€5,074M
2024 · EU pctl 83
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€4,821M
2024 · EU pctl 85
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€20,032M
2025 · EU pctl 84
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€101,190
2025 · EU pctl 82
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€3,902M
2025 · EU pctl 78
Labour market
Employment, total persons
230,320
2024 · EU pctl 77
Self-employed persons
26,790
2024 · EU pctl 66
Employment in manufacturing (C)
35,650
2024 · EU pctl 77
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
79.3%
2025 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
20.8%
2025 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
9.5%
2025 · EU pctl 92
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
253,000
2025 · EU pctl 79
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
42,342
2023 · EU pctl 82
Enterprise births
3,593
2023 · EU pctl 78
Enterprise deaths
3,512
2023 · EU pctl 80
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.3%
2023 · EU pctl 73
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.9%
2023 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.6%
2025 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE)
1.3%
2023 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
39.0%
2025 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
34.8%
2025 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
26.4%
2025 · EU pctl 94 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
26.8%
2025 · EU pctl 73 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
9.1%
2025 · EU pctl 58 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
96.6%
2025 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,334,165
2025 · EU pctl 59
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
710 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
13,152 kt
2025 · EU pctl 73
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
4,341
CURRENT · EU pctl 95
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
877
CURRENT · EU pctl 88
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²)
11 km/1000km²
2024 · EU pctl 23 · NUTS-2 src
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
32
CURRENT · EU pctl 26
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)
306,425
2025 · EU pctl 76
Population aged 65+
120,009
2025 · EU pctl 81
Population aged under 15
68,385
2025 · EU pctl 76
Median age of population
44.0 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 26
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
39.2%
2025 · EU pctl 64
Crude rate of total population change
8.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 88
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
11.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 89
Crude birth rate
7.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 46
Crude death rate
10.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 33
Live births
3,730
2024 · EU pctl 76
Deaths
5,293
2024 · EU pctl 76
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
61.5%
2025 · EU pctl 66
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.20
2024 · EU pctl 21
Population density (persons per km²)
46 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 15
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
400,016
2100 · EU pctl 75
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
256 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
944 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
209 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 82
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
34.2 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 70
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
152 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 36
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,325 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
38 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.90
2022 · EU pctl 94
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.91
2022 · EU pctl 98
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.99
2022 · EU pctl 98
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
2.19
2022 · EU pctl 98
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
1.09
2022 · EU pctl 99
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.067/kWh
2025-S2 · EU pctl 1
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.065/kWh
2025-S2 · EU pctl 97
Housing market
Dwelling price per m² — old housing-company dwellings (Statistics Finland)
€2,293/m²
2025 · EU pctl 88
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
74 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 21
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 10
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
143 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 95
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 7
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
8
2024 · EU pctl 2
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
5
2024 · EU pctl 9
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
67
2024 · EU pctl 92
Industrial facilities per 100k inhabitants (E-PRTR)
158 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 93
Population in the 100-year river floodplain (% of residents, EFAS × census grid)
2.2%
2021 · EU pctl 41
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