NUTS-3 IS002 · Iceland
Landsbyggð
Export region data (CSV)Its Opportunity Index of 49.9/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by livability and economic growth. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (93.3th EU percentile) and weakest for safety (59.7th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
49.9
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 3/4 pillars
Growth74.3
Livability75.3
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)
20
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density33
Airport access27
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)
92.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.54.9 µg/m³
PM107.3 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)
75.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 6/7 pillars
Economy—
Jobs74.5
Education81
Health82
Safety59.7
Connectivity61
Environment93.3
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
74.3
/ 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
+1.4%
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 · 46 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
1
2012 · EU pctl 7
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
6 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 15
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)
6,034,845
2023 · EU pctl 90
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.
297
CURRENT · EU pctl 29
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
212
CURRENT · EU pctl 33
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
79
CURRENT · EU pctl 73
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)
91,690
2025 · EU pctl 28
Population aged 65+
23,440
2025 · EU pctl 13
Population aged under 15
25,260
2025 · EU pctl 38
Median age of population
37.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 1
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
25.6%
2025 · EU pctl 4
Crude rate of total population change
6.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 81
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
2.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 32
Crude birth rate
10.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 98
Crude death rate
6.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 2
Live births
1,488
2024 · EU pctl 41
Deaths
971
2024 · EU pctl 9
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
53.1%
2025 · EU pctl 14
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.54
2024 · EU pctl 79
Population density (persons per km²)
1 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 0
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
2.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 93
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
5.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 9
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
97.5 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 19
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
330 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 21
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
24 /M pop
2021 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
762 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 91
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 0
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
240 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 99
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
6 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 68
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
7
2024 · EU pctl 1
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
Similar regions · nearest peers on standardised NUTS-3 indicators
Other Iceland regions