NUTS-3 IS001 · Iceland
Höfuðborgarsvæði
Export region data (CSV)Its Opportunity Index of 49.1/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic growth and livability. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (92.7th EU percentile) and weakest for safety (42.3th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
49.1
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 3/4 pillars
Growth74
Livability73.3
Market access0
Economic scale—
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.
Connectivity Index · transit · air · market access (experimental)
31.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density45
Airport access50
Market access0
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)
74.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary67
Lifelong learning96
Knowledge workers64
Scientists & engineers71
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)
91.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.53.8 µg/m³
PM1010 µg/m³
NO27.3 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)
73.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 6/7 pillars
Economy—
Jobs74.5
Education81
Health82
Safety42.3
Connectivity67
Environment92.7
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
74
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 3/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
—
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
—
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
—
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
—
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.3%
CAGR
Employment rate
+3.5 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-1.0 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.
All indicators · 47 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Labour market
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
88.1%
2025 · EU pctl 100 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
9.5%
2025 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
20
2012 · EU pctl 55
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
98 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 52
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.5%
2024 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
5.6%
2025 · EU pctl 73 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
46.1%
2025 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
44.8%
2025 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
27.3%
2025 · EU pctl 96 · 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)
10.2%
2025 · EU pctl 71 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
98.4%
2021 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
3,483,746
2023 · EU pctl 81
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
639 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 72 · 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.
895
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
359
CURRENT · EU pctl 45
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
55
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
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)
166,301
2025 · EU pctl 52
Population aged 65+
38,312
2025 · EU pctl 32
Population aged under 15
44,441
2025 · EU pctl 61
Median age of population
37.3 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 1
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
23.0%
2025 · EU pctl 1
Crude rate of total population change
20.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 99
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
15.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Crude birth rate
11.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 99
Crude death rate
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 1
Live births
2,823
2024 · EU pctl 68
Deaths
1,636
2024 · EU pctl 24
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
49.8%
2025 · EU pctl 6
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.58
2024 · EU pctl 85
Population density (persons per km²)
239 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 69
Social
Life expectancy at birth
82.8 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
828 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
224 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 87
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
41.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 77
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
423 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 83
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,386 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 79
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
24 /M pop
2021 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
100 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 28
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 0
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
158 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 96
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
16 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 93
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
10
2024 · EU pctl 6
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
7
2024 · EU pctl 15
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
28
2024 · EU pctl 1
Similar regions · nearest peers on standardised NUTS-3 indicators
Other Iceland regions