NUTS-3 FI1D9 · Finland
Pohjois-Pohjanmaa
Pohjois-Pohjanmaa generates €18bn of GDP across 418.3k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 45.7/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and livability. Its economy has grown +4.3%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 1.7pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (91th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (18th).
Long-run trajectory · EU percentile of real GDP per head, 1995–2024
Mid-field stable68 → 71 EU percentile since 1995 (+3 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 quality91
Freight intensity85
Digital readiness79
Resilience66
Cost advantage64
Economic base63
Talent & skills63
Industrial base62
Quality of life55
Growth momentum41
Connectivity40
Demographic outlook31
Labour market25
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)
45.7
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth40.8
Livability54.9
Market access8
Economic scale79
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)
65.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability58
Labour stability66
Diversification77
Demographic stability61
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)
40.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density58
Airport access55
Market access8
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)
63
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary30
Lifelong learning94
Knowledge workers72
Scientists & engineers56
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)
90.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.54.4 µg/m³
PM1010 µg/m³
NO27.7 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)
54.9
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy49.5
Jobs18
Education74.5
Health54.5
Safety28
Connectivity68.5
Environment91
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
40.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.3%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.6%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.7 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+1.3 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.3%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.7 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.2 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: Public · health · education · 25.8%Diversified · HHI 2098
Agriculture 3.7%Industry 23.6%Construction 7.1%Trade · transport · ICT 16.9%Finance · real estate · prof. 23%Public · health · education 25.8%
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)
€18,300M2024
3.1% 1y 4.3% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 79
Real GDP (2020 prices)
€15,953M2025
0.2% 1y 1.2% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 79
Population
418,3312025
0.0% 1y 0.3% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 72
Unemployment rate
9.0%2025
16.9% 1y 0.5% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 90
Employment
185,9402024
2.0% 1y 0.9% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 70
Productivity / employee
€100,5182025
2.1% 1y 3.3% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 82
Gross value added
€16,005M2024
3.1% 1y 4.6% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 79
Dwelling price
€1,920/m²2025
2.4% 1y 0.5% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 82
All indicators · 90 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€16,005M
2024 · EU pctl 79
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€589M
2024 · EU pctl 90
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,770M
2024 · EU pctl 80
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,178M
2024 · EU pctl 82
GVA — construction (F)
€1,134M
2024 · EU pctl 83
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,702M
2024 · EU pctl 73
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€21,800
2023 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
36,400 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 63
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€43,700
2024 · EU pctl 73
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€13,860M
2023 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€3,205M
2023 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€24,815M
2023 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€2,094M
2024 · EU pctl 76
GVA — information & communication (J)
€719M
2024 · EU pctl 81
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€3,677M
2024 · EU pctl 79
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€4,133M
2024 · EU pctl 83
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€15,953M
2025 · EU pctl 79
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€100,518
2025 · EU pctl 82
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€4,507M
2025 · EU pctl 82
Labour market
Employment, total persons
185,940
2024 · EU pctl 70
Self-employed persons
18,800
2024 · EU pctl 55
Employment in manufacturing (C)
25,050
2024 · EU pctl 65
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
77.6%
2025 · EU pctl 49 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
20.9%
2025 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
9.0%
2025 · EU pctl 90
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
207,500
2025 · EU pctl 73
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
27,063
2023 · EU pctl 70
Enterprise births
2,660
2023 · EU pctl 71
Enterprise deaths
2,298
2023 · EU pctl 73
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.5%
2023 · EU pctl 75
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.8%
2023 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.8%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE)
1.9%
2023 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
39.2%
2025 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
34.5%
2025 · EU pctl 30 · 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)
26.7%
2025 · EU pctl 72 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
8.9%
2025 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
97.4%
2025 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,839,665
2025 · EU pctl 68
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
727 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 95 · 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.
1,979
CURRENT · EU pctl 79
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
20,771 kt
2025 · EU pctl 89
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
473
CURRENT · EU pctl 58
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²)
1 km/1000km²
2024 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
50
CURRENT · EU pctl 45
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)
256,873
2025 · EU pctl 71
Population aged 65+
90,111
2025 · EU pctl 69
Population aged under 15
71,347
2025 · EU pctl 77
Median age of population
40.8 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 7
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.1%
2025 · EU pctl 40
Crude rate of total population change
0.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 47
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
0.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 19
Crude birth rate
8.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 76
Crude death rate
9.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 14
Live births
3,631
2024 · EU pctl 75
Deaths
3,866
2024 · EU pctl 62
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
62.9%
2025 · EU pctl 73
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.47
2024 · EU pctl 64
Population density (persons per km²)
11 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 1
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
333,662
2100 · EU pctl 69
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
283 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
976 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
197 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
2.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 96
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
34.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 71
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
79.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 13
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,769 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 87
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)
€1,920/m²
2025 · EU pctl 82
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
88 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 25
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 7
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
187 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 98
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 11
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 6
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 19
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
58
2024 · EU pctl 69
Industrial facilities per 100k inhabitants (E-PRTR)
52.0 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 72
Population in the 100-year river floodplain (% of residents, EFAS × census grid)
13.3%
2021 · EU pctl 92
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