NUTS-3 FRF21 · France
Ardennes
Export region data (CSV)Ardennes generates €8.5bn of GDP across 263k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 53.6/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and economic scale. Its economy has grown +3.5%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 8.9pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (86.7th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (21th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
53.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth50
Livability45.4
Market access66
Economic scale53
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)
49.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability59
Labour stability43
Diversification75
Demographic stability20
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)
50
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density63
Airport access21
Market access66
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)
44
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary50
Lifelong learning68
Knowledge workers36
Scientists & engineers22
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)
85.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.56.3 µg/m³
PM1011.9 µg/m³
NO25.9 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)
45.4
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy37.5
Jobs21
Education28
Health61
Safety34.3
Connectivity49.5
Environment86.7
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
50
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.5%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.8%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.8 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.5%
CAGR
Employment rate
+8.9 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-4.7 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 · 26.3%Diversified · HHI 2110
Agriculture 5.5%Industry 25.7%Construction 5.1%Trade · transport · ICT 18.5%Finance · real estate · prof. 19%Public · health · education 26.3%
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 · 69 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€7,582M
2024 · EU pctl 53
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€414M
2024 · EU pctl 83
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,951M
2024 · EU pctl 57
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,224M
2024 · EU pctl 49
GVA — construction (F)
€383M
2024 · EU pctl 43
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,403M
2024 · EU pctl 49
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€22,400
2023 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
29,400 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 36
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€31,900
2024 · EU pctl 42
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€11,131M
2024 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,531M
2024 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€22,820M
2024 · EU pctl 35 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€958M
2024 · EU pctl 51
GVA — information & communication (J)
€570M
2024 · EU pctl 77
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,437M
2024 · EU pctl 48
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,994M
2024 · EU pctl 61
Labour market
Employment, total persons
92,400
2024 · EU pctl 41
Self-employed persons
11,400
2024 · EU pctl 40
Employment in manufacturing (C)
14,300
2024 · EU pctl 42
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
72.4%
2025 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
18.6%
2025 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
13,991
2023 · EU pctl 50
Enterprise births
1,798
2023 · EU pctl 59
Enterprise deaths
1,390
2023 · EU pctl 59
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.0%
2023 · EU pctl 87
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.6%
2023 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
1.5%
2024 · EU pctl 3 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
33.8%
2025 · EU pctl 46 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
41.0%
2025 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
13.6%
2025 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
21.3%
2025 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
6.6%
2025 · EU pctl 22 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
94.3%
2025 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
464,672
2025 · EU pctl 30
Mobility
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,442
CURRENT · EU pctl 68
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
548
CURRENT · EU pctl 63
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
86
CURRENT · EU pctl 79
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)
155,823
2025 · EU pctl 49
Population aged 65+
63,919
2025 · EU pctl 54
Population aged under 15
43,250
2025 · EU pctl 60
Median age of population
45.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 46
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
41.0%
2025 · EU pctl 73
Crude rate of total population change
-5.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 15
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-2.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 4
Crude birth rate
8.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 62
Crude death rate
10.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 36
Live births
2,161
2024 · EU pctl 56
Deaths
2,837
2024 · EU pctl 48
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
68.8%
2025 · EU pctl 88
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.63
2024 · EU pctl 90
Population density (persons per km²)
51 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 17
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
22.9%
2025 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.8 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
553 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
930 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
228 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 49 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 31
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
37.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 73
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
417 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 82
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,250 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 74
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
80 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
192 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 47
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
6 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 37
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
46 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 36
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 60
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
12
2024 · EU pctl 18
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
6
2024 · EU pctl 10
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
53
2024 · EU pctl 43
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