NUTS-3 FI1C7 · Finland
Kymenlaakso
Export region data (CSV)Kymenlaakso generates €6.9bn of GDP across 157.4k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 31/100 sits in the lower tier of EU regions, led by livability and economic scale. Its economy has grown +0.1%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 0.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (97.7th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (18.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
31
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth5.2
Livability58.8
Market access16
Economic scale44
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)
53
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability63
Labour stability73
Diversification65
Demographic stability11
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
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density96
Airport access35
Market access16
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)
97
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.54.4 µg/m³
PM108.8 µg/m³
NO23.1 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)
58.8
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy54.5
Jobs18.5
Education65.5
Health59.5
Safety31
Connectivity85
Environment97.7
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
5.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+0.1%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+1.9%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-1.8 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-2.9 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.9%
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: Public · health · education · 25.2%Diversified · HHI 2164
Agriculture 2.8%Industry 19.6%Construction 5.3%Trade · transport · ICT 23.5%Finance · real estate · prof. 23.6%Public · health · education 25.2%
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).
All indicators · 70 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€6,001M
2024 · EU pctl 43
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€167M
2024 · EU pctl 54
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,178M
2024 · EU pctl 38
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€904M
2024 · EU pctl 38
GVA — construction (F)
€319M
2024 · EU pctl 36
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,408M
2024 · EU pctl 49
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)
36,100 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 62
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€43,400
2024 · EU pctl 72
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)
€929M
2024 · EU pctl 50
GVA — information & communication (J)
€390M
2024 · EU pctl 70
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,419M
2024 · EU pctl 47
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,510M
2024 · EU pctl 50
Labour market
Employment, total persons
69,440
2024 · EU pctl 29
Self-employed persons
6,150
2024 · EU pctl 19
Employment in manufacturing (C)
8,700
2024 · EU pctl 24
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
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
9,772
2023 · EU pctl 39
Enterprise births
733
2023 · EU pctl 36
Enterprise deaths
820
2023 · EU pctl 44
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.0%
2023 · EU pctl 64
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
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)
307,558
2025 · EU pctl 19
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
710 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 92 · 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.
1,974
CURRENT · EU pctl 78
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,254
CURRENT · EU pctl 96
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
68
CURRENT · EU pctl 65
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)
90,512
2025 · EU pctl 28
Population aged 65+
48,123
2025 · EU pctl 41
Population aged under 15
18,807
2025 · EU pctl 26
Median age of population
51.2 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 91
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
53.2%
2025 · EU pctl 97
Crude rate of total population change
-7.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 9
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
1.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 23
Crude birth rate
4.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 2
Crude death rate
14.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 84
Live births
770
2024 · EU pctl 16
Deaths
2,262
2024 · EU pctl 37
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
73.9%
2025 · EU pctl 95
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.06
2024 · EU pctl 5
Population density (persons per km²)
40 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 12
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
17.2%
2025 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.9 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
255 /100k
2023 · 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
1.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 77
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
30.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 63
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
136 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 31
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,525 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 97
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
38 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
61 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 18
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 9
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
150 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 96
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 1
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
9
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.
3
2024 · EU pctl 3
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
55
2024 · EU pctl 56
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