NUTS-3 FRM02 · France
Haute-Corse
Export region data (CSV)Haute-Corse generates €6.3bn of GDP across 189.4k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 34.6/100 sits in the lower tier of EU regions, led by economic growth and livability. Its economy has grown +4.8%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate down 0.7pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (93th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (15th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
34.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth52
Livability40.5
Market access6
Economic scale40
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)
55.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability72
Labour stability36
Diversification30
Demographic stability83
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)
34.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density30
Airport access68
Market access6
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)
26.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary9
Lifelong learning8
Knowledge workers64
Scientists & engineers25
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)
76
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.56.4 µg/m³
PM1013.6 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)
40.5
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy44.5
Jobs19
Education20
Health93
Safety15.3
Connectivity15
Environment76.7
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
52
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.8%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.8%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.1 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+1.1 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.7%
CAGR
Employment rate
-0.7 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.8 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 · 32.1%Diversified · HHI 2384
Agriculture 1.7%Industry 8.9%Construction 8.8%Trade · transport · ICT 21.4%Finance · real estate · prof. 27.1%Public · health · education 32.1%
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)
€5,638M
2024 · EU pctl 40
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€94M
2024 · EU pctl 35
GVA — industry (B–E)
€504M
2024 · EU pctl 13
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€191M
2024 · EU pctl 8
GVA — construction (F)
€495M
2024 · EU pctl 53
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,205M
2024 · EU pctl 42
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€24,200
2023 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
30,900 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 41
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€33,600
2024 · EU pctl 46
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€2,838M
2024 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€78M
2024 · EU pctl 2 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€6,494M
2024 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€993M
2024 · EU pctl 52
GVA — information & communication (J)
€71M
2024 · EU pctl 35
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,527M
2024 · EU pctl 51
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,812M
2024 · EU pctl 57
Labour market
Employment, total persons
73,900
2024 · EU pctl 31
Self-employed persons
12,000
2024 · EU pctl 41
Employment in manufacturing (C)
3,200
2024 · EU pctl 6
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
68.8%
2025 · EU pctl 11 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
46.0%
2024 · EU pctl 100 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
19,744
2023 · EU pctl 60
Enterprise births
2,319
2023 · EU pctl 67
Enterprise deaths
1,935
2023 · EU pctl 68
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.7%
2023 · EU pctl 81
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.3%
2023 · EU pctl 4 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.7%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
31.7%
2025 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
28.7%
2025 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
5.9%
2025 · EU pctl 8 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
25.7%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
6.8%
2025 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
83.4%
2025 · EU pctl 0 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
5,149,421
2025 · EU pctl 87
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
615 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 64 · 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.
273
CURRENT · EU pctl 28
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
144
CURRENT · EU pctl 30
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
37
CURRENT · EU pctl 31
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)
114,688
2025 · EU pctl 37
Population aged 65+
49,059
2025 · EU pctl 41
Population aged under 15
25,652
2025 · EU pctl 39
Median age of population
47.4 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 62
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
42.8%
2025 · EU pctl 79
Crude rate of total population change
5.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 79
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
9.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 83
Crude birth rate
7.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 33
Crude death rate
10.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 24
Live births
1,325
2024 · EU pctl 37
Deaths
1,907
2024 · EU pctl 30
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
65.1%
2025 · EU pctl 81
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.24
2024 · EU pctl 25
Population density (persons per km²)
41 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 12
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
28.6%
2025 · EU pctl 87 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
84.0 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
548 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
797 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 5 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
216 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
5.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 99
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
21.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 50
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
91.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 17
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
899 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 57
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
113 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
1,582 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 99
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 6
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
108 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 90
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
15 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 91
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14
2024 · EU pctl 37
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).
70
2024 · EU pctl 95
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