NUTS-3 FRY40 · France
La Réunion
Export region data (CSV)La Réunion generates €24bn of GDP across 904.2k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 50.4/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +4.6%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 5.4pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (84.3th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (1th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
50.4
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth66.6
Livability39
Market access11
Economic scale85
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)
49.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability93
Labour stability7
Diversification7
Demographic stability91
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)
61.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density91
Airport access82
Market access11
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)
29.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary17
Lifelong learning63
Knowledge workers30
Scientists & engineers7
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)
83.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.53.6 µg/m³
PM1012.2 µg/m³
NO29.1 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)
39
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy28.5
Jobs1
Education19
Health60.5
Safety34
Connectivity46
Environment84.3
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
66.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.6%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.0 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.8 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.9%
CAGR
Employment rate
+5.4 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-1.1 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 · 41.7%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2803
Agriculture 2%Industry 7.2%Construction 5.5%Trade · transport · ICT 18.2%Finance · real estate · prof. 25.4%Public · health · education 41.7%
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)
€22,940M
2024 · EU pctl 86
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€456M
2024 · EU pctl 85
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,642M
2024 · EU pctl 50
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,224M
2024 · EU pctl 49
GVA — construction (F)
€1,265M
2024 · EU pctl 86
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€4,185M
2024 · EU pctl 83
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€19,200
2023 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
25,400 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 23
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€27,500
2024 · EU pctl 32
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€4,844M
2024 · EU pctl 13 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€291M
2024 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€13,800M
2024 · EU pctl 22 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€3,530M
2024 · EU pctl 85
GVA — information & communication (J)
€684M
2024 · EU pctl 80
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€5,818M
2024 · EU pctl 86
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€9,574M
2024 · EU pctl 95
Labour market
Employment, total persons
342,000
2024 · EU pctl 88
Self-employed persons
47,500
2024 · EU pctl 85
Employment in manufacturing (C)
17,600
2024 · EU pctl 51
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
64.2%
2025 · EU pctl 4 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
33.9%
2025 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
60,822
2023 · EU pctl 89
Enterprise births
9,731
2023 · EU pctl 94
Enterprise deaths
6,741
2023 · EU pctl 92
3-year enterprise survival rate
7.4%
2023 · EU pctl 99
Innovation & R&D
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
1.3%
2025 · EU pctl 2 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
26.8%
2025 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
31.6%
2025 · EU pctl 17 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
12.1%
2025 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
20.2%
2025 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
4.9%
2025 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
87.3%
2025 · EU pctl 1 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,626,678
2025 · EU pctl 64
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
483 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 18 · 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.
9,022
CURRENT · EU pctl 99
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
998
CURRENT · EU pctl 91
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
24
CURRENT · EU pctl 18
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
575,192
2025 · EU pctl 92
Population aged 65+
142,316
2025 · EU pctl 87
Population aged under 15
186,672
2025 · EU pctl 95
Median age of population
39.4 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 3
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
24.7%
2025 · EU pctl 3
Crude rate of total population change
7.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
0.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 17
Crude birth rate
13.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 100
Crude death rate
6.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 1
Live births
11,818
2024 · EU pctl 96
Deaths
5,832
2024 · EU pctl 80
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
57.2%
2025 · EU pctl 36
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
2.11
2024 · EU pctl 100
Population density (persons per km²)
364 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 78
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
42.3%
2025 · EU pctl 99 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.9 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
423 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
937 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
195 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 5 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
62.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 87
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
151 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 35
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,014 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 63
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
44 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
1,781 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 99
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 0
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 0
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
26 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 99
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 21
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
9
2024 · EU pctl 26
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
41
2024 · EU pctl 3
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