NUTS-3 FRF34 · France
Vosges
Export region data (CSV)Vosges generates €11bn of GDP across 353.5k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 50.9/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and market access. Its economy has grown +3.4%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 5.3pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (74.7th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (18th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
50.9
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth40.4
Livability44.1
Market access55
Economic scale64
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)
53.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability93
Labour stability40
Diversification61
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)
48.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density76
Airport access14
Market access55
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)
54.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary78
Lifelong learning57
Knowledge workers59
Scientists & engineers23
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)
73.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.58.3 µg/m³
PM1012.5 µg/m³
NO24.9 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)
44.1
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy36.5
Jobs18
Education45.5
Health57
Safety26.7
Connectivity50
Environment74.7
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
40.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.4%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.6%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.7 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.4 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.5%
CAGR
Employment rate
+5.3 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.9 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 · 28.4%Diversified · HHI 2185
Agriculture 2.5%Industry 21.7%Construction 7.4%Trade · transport · ICT 15.4%Finance · real estate · prof. 24.7%Public · health · education 28.4%
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)
€9,936M
2024 · EU pctl 64
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€245M
2024 · EU pctl 66
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,153M
2024 · EU pctl 61
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,904M
2024 · EU pctl 65
GVA — construction (F)
€731M
2024 · EU pctl 70
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,528M
2024 · EU pctl 53
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€22,600
2023 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
28,800 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 34
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€31,200
2024 · EU pctl 40
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€16,068M
2024 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,764M
2024 · EU pctl 40 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€37,107M
2024 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,471M
2024 · EU pctl 67
GVA — information & communication (J)
€72M
2024 · EU pctl 36
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,457M
2024 · EU pctl 68
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,822M
2024 · EU pctl 73
Labour market
Employment, total persons
140,100
2024 · EU pctl 59
Self-employed persons
17,500
2024 · EU pctl 53
Employment in manufacturing (C)
22,600
2024 · EU pctl 61
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
72.3%
2025 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
24.8%
2025 · EU pctl 87 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
23,716
2023 · EU pctl 66
Enterprise births
2,848
2023 · EU pctl 73
Enterprise deaths
2,192
2023 · EU pctl 72
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.4%
2023 · EU pctl 73
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.2%
2023 · EU pctl 37 · 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
35.9%
2025 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
48.6%
2025 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
10.9%
2025 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
24.9%
2025 · EU pctl 59 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
6.7%
2025 · EU pctl 23 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
93.7%
2025 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,044,963
2025 · EU pctl 70
Mobility
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
2,406
CURRENT · EU pctl 85
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
681
CURRENT · EU pctl 76
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
102
CURRENT · EU pctl 86
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
0
CURRENT · EU pctl 0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
206,347
2025 · EU pctl 62
Population aged 65+
95,199
2025 · EU pctl 71
Population aged under 15
51,960
2025 · EU pctl 67
Median age of population
48.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 72
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
46.1%
2025 · EU pctl 87
Crude rate of total population change
-5.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 15
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-0.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 13
Crude birth rate
7.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 43
Crude death rate
12.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Live births
2,655
2024 · EU pctl 66
Deaths
4,509
2024 · EU pctl 71
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
71.3%
2025 · EU pctl 92
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.57
2024 · EU pctl 84
Population density (persons per km²)
60 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 22
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
20.8%
2025 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.7 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
570 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
946 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
240 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 87
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
23.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 54
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
331 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 72
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,105 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 68
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
51 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
419 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
9 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 57
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
60 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 53
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 55
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
13
2024 · EU pctl 24
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 8
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 71
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