NUTS-3 IE053 · Ireland
South-West
Export region data (CSV)South-West generates €126bn of GDP across 780.4k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 73.3/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +7.4%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 7.9pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for economy (90th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (25th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
73.3
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth90.6
Livability55.6
Market access48
Economic scale99
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)
27.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability0
Labour stability11
Diversification0
Demographic stability99
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 density34
Airport access63
Market access48
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)
84
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary97
Lifelong learning64
Knowledge workers86
Scientists & engineers89
Young tertiary attainment (25–34), adult lifelong learning, knowledge-worker share and scientists & engineers — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = deeper talent pool. Experimental.
Quality of Life · composite (experimental)
55.6
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy90
Jobs55
Education53.5
Health69.5
Safety54
Connectivity42.5
Environment25
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
90.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+7.4%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+15.9%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-8.5 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.7 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+7.9 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-1.6 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: Industry · 74.4%Concentrated · HHI 5719
Agriculture 1%Industry 74.4%Construction 1.6%Trade · transport · ICT 6.9%Finance · real estate · prof. 10%Public · health · education 6.2%
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)
€119,927M
2024 · EU pctl 99
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€1,232M
2024 · EU pctl 99
GVA — industry (B–E)
€89,177M
2024 · EU pctl 100
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€87,318M
2024 · EU pctl 100
GVA — construction (F)
€1,860M
2024 · EU pctl 92
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€8,227M
2024 · EU pctl 92
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€28,700
2023 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
138,000 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 100
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€163,000
2024 · EU pctl 100
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€43,613M
2023 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€27,811M
2023 · EU pctl 100 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€41,142M
2023 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€3,737M
2024 · EU pctl 87
GVA — information & communication (J)
€1,869M
2024 · EU pctl 87
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€12,047M
2024 · EU pctl 95
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€7,383M
2024 · EU pctl 93
Labour market
Employment, total persons
397,150
2024 · EU pctl 91
Self-employed persons
62,680
2024 · EU pctl 91
Employment in manufacturing (C)
53,730
2024 · EU pctl 89
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
78.0%
2025 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
9.8%
2025 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
54,528
2023 · EU pctl 87
Enterprise births
5,747
2023 · EU pctl 87
Enterprise deaths
8,091
2023 · EU pctl 94
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.8%
2023 · EU pctl 61
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)
9.1%
2025 · EU pctl 96 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
54.8%
2025 · EU pctl 97 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
63.4%
2025 · EU pctl 97 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
12.9%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
29.7%
2025 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
12.0%
2025 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
95.6%
2025 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
7,487,017
2024 · EU pctl 92
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.
1,672
CURRENT · EU pctl 73
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
214
CURRENT · EU pctl 34
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
43
CURRENT · EU pctl 37
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)
510,776
2025 · EU pctl 91
Population aged 65+
131,499
2025 · EU pctl 84
Population aged under 15
138,101
2025 · EU pctl 93
Median age of population
40.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 6
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
25.7%
2025 · EU pctl 4
Crude rate of total population change
13.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 96
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
11.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 89
Crude birth rate
9.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 90
Crude death rate
7.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 3
Live births
7,258
2024 · EU pctl 93
Deaths
5,400
2024 · EU pctl 77
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
52.8%
2025 · EU pctl 12
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.44
2024 · EU pctl 59
Population density (persons per km²)
64 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 24
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
18.2%
2025 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.7 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
256 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 11 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
936 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
247 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 77 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 57
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
13.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 33
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
79.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 14
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
916 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 58
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
32 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 23 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
241 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 54
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 0
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
27 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 19
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
9 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 82
Environment
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
17
2024 · EU pctl 75
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 44
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