NUTS-3 IE062 · Ireland
Mid-East
Export region data (CSV)Mid-East generates €42bn of GDP across 787.3k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 77.2/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +7.5%/yr over five years and cooling, with the employment rate up 6.2pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for education (85th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (34th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
77.2
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth87
Livability62.8
Market access66
Economic scale93
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)
34.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability1
Labour stability17
Diversification24
Demographic stability95
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)
57.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density35
Airport access71
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)
93
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary99
Lifelong learning78
Knowledge workers97
Scientists & engineers98
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)
62.8
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy81.5
Jobs53.5
Education85
Health76
Safety56.7
Connectivity53
Environment34
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
87
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+7.5%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+11.2%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-3.7 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.6 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.1%
CAGR
Employment rate
+6.2 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: Industry · 36.8%Diversified · HHI 2438
Agriculture 2.1%Industry 36.8%Construction 5.8%Trade · transport · ICT 19%Finance · real estate · prof. 21.6%Public · health · education 14.7%
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)
€40,432M
2024 · EU pctl 94
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€844M
2024 · EU pctl 95
GVA — industry (B–E)
€14,896M
2024 · EU pctl 98
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€14,361M
2024 · EU pctl 99
GVA — construction (F)
€2,336M
2024 · EU pctl 95
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€7,682M
2024 · EU pctl 91
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€28,100
2023 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
45,800 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 85
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€54,100
2024 · EU pctl 87
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€79,048M
2023 · EU pctl 96 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€19,258M
2023 · EU pctl 97 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€82,802M
2023 · EU pctl 85 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€2,587M
2024 · EU pctl 80
GVA — information & communication (J)
€2,155M
2024 · EU pctl 89
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€8,716M
2024 · EU pctl 92
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€5,958M
2024 · EU pctl 89
Labour market
Employment, total persons
324,030
2024 · EU pctl 88
Self-employed persons
47,870
2024 · EU pctl 86
Employment in manufacturing (C)
37,800
2024 · EU pctl 79
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
79.0%
2025 · EU pctl 60 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
12.5%
2025 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
53,611
2023 · EU pctl 87
Enterprise births
6,590
2023 · EU pctl 90
Enterprise deaths
7,418
2023 · EU pctl 93
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.3%
2023 · EU pctl 73
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.1%
2023 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
11.6%
2025 · EU pctl 99 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
63.0%
2025 · EU pctl 99 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
70.4%
2025 · EU pctl 99 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
16.1%
2025 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
36.9%
2025 · EU pctl 97 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
14.4%
2025 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
96.5%
2025 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,547,284
2024 · EU pctl 74
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
426 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 6 · 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.
1,892
CURRENT · EU pctl 77
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
240
CURRENT · EU pctl 35
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
35
CURRENT · EU pctl 29
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)
517,246
2025 · EU pctl 91
Population aged 65+
112,725
2025 · EU pctl 78
Population aged under 15
157,316
2025 · EU pctl 95
Median age of population
39.3 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 3
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
21.8%
2025 · EU pctl 1
Crude rate of total population change
6.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 80
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
0.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 19
Crude birth rate
10.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 98
Crude death rate
5.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 1
Live births
8,499
2024 · EU pctl 94
Deaths
4,382
2024 · EU pctl 69
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
52.2%
2025 · EU pctl 11
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.80
2024 · EU pctl 98
Population density (persons per km²)
115 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 46
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
17.1%
2025 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.2 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
316 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
907 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
240 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 56
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
18.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 44
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
193 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 47
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,175 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 70
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
22 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 4 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
79 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 23
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 4
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
23 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 16
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 29
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.
15
2024 · EU pctl 66
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
56
2024 · EU pctl 62
Similar regions · nearest peers on standardised NUTS-3 indicators
Other Ireland regions