NUTS-3 LT029 · Lithuania
Utenos apskritis
Export region data (CSV)Utenos apskritis generates €1.9bn of GDP across 122.7k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 28.1/100 sits in the lower tier of EU regions, led by economic growth and livability. Its economy has grown +6.9%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 3.4pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (70th EU percentile) and weakest for health (8.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
28.1
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth57
Livability38.4
Market access11
Economic scale6
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)
28.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability7
Labour stability41
Diversification56
Demographic stability9
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)
41.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density98
Airport access15
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)
66.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary86
Lifelong learning41
Knowledge workers73
Scientists & engineers65
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)
68.5
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 2/3 pollutants
PM2.57.7 µg/m³
PM1012.9 µg/m³
NO2—
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)
38.4
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy13.5
Jobs31
Education47
Health8.5
Safety48.3
Connectivity50.5
Environment70
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
57
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+6.9%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+4.4%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+2.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-1.7 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-1.0%
CAGR
Employment rate
+3.4 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-1.5 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 · 33.1%Diversified · HHI 2214
Agriculture 5.1%Industry 33.1%Construction 5.5%Trade · transport · ICT 18.6%Finance · real estate · prof. 17.1%Public · health · education 20.4%
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)
€1,674M
2024 · EU pctl 6
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€86M
2024 · EU pctl 32
GVA — industry (B–E)
€555M
2024 · EU pctl 15
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€299M
2024 · EU pctl 12
GVA — construction (F)
€92M
2024 · EU pctl 8
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€312M
2024 · EU pctl 6
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€14,200
2024 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
19,200 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 7
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€15,000
2024 · EU pctl 10
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€10,284M
2024 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,567M
2024 · EU pctl 35 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€21,259M
2024 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€186M
2024 · EU pctl 10
GVA — information & communication (J)
€32M
2024 · EU pctl 21
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€287M
2024 · EU pctl 6
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€342M
2024 · EU pctl 6
Labour market
Employment, total persons
55,130
2024 · EU pctl 20
Self-employed persons
8,020
2024 · EU pctl 28
Employment in manufacturing (C)
11,740
2024 · EU pctl 35
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
78.7%
2025 · EU pctl 54 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
15.5%
2025 · EU pctl 55 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
10,692
2023 · EU pctl 41
Enterprise births
2,192
2023 · EU pctl 65
Enterprise deaths
1,811
2023 · EU pctl 66
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.2%
2023 · EU pctl 91
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.7%
2023 · EU pctl 13 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
2.9%
2025 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
42.7%
2025 · EU pctl 81 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
52.3%
2025 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
9.4%
2025 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
26.8%
2025 · EU pctl 73 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
9.7%
2025 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
87.8%
2025 · EU pctl 3 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
364,529
2024 · EU pctl 24
Tourism intensity (nights per 1,000 inhabitants)
2,901 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 67
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
611 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 58 · 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.
1,728
CURRENT · EU pctl 74
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,408
CURRENT · EU pctl 98
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
98
CURRENT · EU pctl 85
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)
77,576
2025 · EU pctl 21
Population aged 65+
31,988
2025 · EU pctl 25
Population aged under 15
13,138
2025 · EU pctl 14
Median age of population
51.1 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 90
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
41.2%
2025 · EU pctl 74
Crude rate of total population change
-28.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-14.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 0
Crude birth rate
4.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 1
Crude death rate
18.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 99
Live births
581
2024 · EU pctl 9
Deaths
2,294
2024 · EU pctl 38
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
58.2%
2025 · EU pctl 42
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
0.96
2024 · EU pctl 2
Population density (persons per km²)
19 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 3
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
30.7%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
77.2 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
528 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 57 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,630 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
259 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 85 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 86
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
3.2 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 4
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
26.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 4
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
193 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 11
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
49 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 58 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
139 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 37
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 14
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
116 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 92
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 33
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
13
2024 · EU pctl 28
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