NUTS-3 NL127 · Netherlands
Noord-Friesland
Export region data (CSV)Noord-Friesland generates €14bn of GDP across 330k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 63.2/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and market access. Its economy has grown +5.4%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 2.8pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (84th EU percentile) and weakest for safety (31th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
63.2
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth54.6
Livability61.3
Market access64
Economic scale73
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)
62.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability55
Labour stability46
Diversification71
Demographic stability78
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)
55
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density47
Airport access54
Market access64
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)
79.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary77
Lifelong learning90
Knowledge workers76
Scientists & engineers74
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)
83.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.56.2 µg/m³
PM1012.9 µg/m³
NO25.2 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)
61.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy58.5
Jobs69
Education66
Health48.5
Safety31
Connectivity72
Environment84
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
54.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.4%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.9%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.5 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.6 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+2.8 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+0.1 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: Public · health · education · 30%Diversified · HHI 2132
Agriculture 3.6%Industry 15.5%Construction 5.9%Trade · transport · ICT 17.5%Finance · real estate · prof. 25.2%Public · health · education 30%
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 · 64 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€12,920M
2024 · EU pctl 72
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€461M
2023 · EU pctl 85
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,009M
2023 · EU pctl 58
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,270M
2023 · EU pctl 50
GVA — construction (F)
€759M
2023 · EU pctl 72
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,266M
2023 · EU pctl 67
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€24,800
2023 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
37,500 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 66
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€43,800
2024 · EU pctl 73
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€6,262M
2023 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€616M
2023 · EU pctl 14 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€13,205M
2023 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€972M
2023 · EU pctl 51
GVA — information & communication (J)
€300M
2023 · EU pctl 65
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€3,251M
2023 · EU pctl 76
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,881M
2023 · EU pctl 81
Labour market
Employment, total persons
166,600
2024 · EU pctl 67
Self-employed persons
32,600
2023 · EU pctl 73
Employment in manufacturing (C)
12,200
2023 · EU pctl 36
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
85.6%
2025 · EU pctl 96 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
7.6%
2025 · EU pctl 23 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
35,353
2023 · EU pctl 77
Enterprise births
3,044
2023 · EU pctl 74
Enterprise deaths
1,581
2023 · EU pctl 63
3-year enterprise survival rate
6.5%
2023 · EU pctl 94
Innovation & R&D
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
2.6%
2025 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
38.6%
2025 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
48.1%
2025 · EU pctl 77 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
24.1%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
27.6%
2025 · EU pctl 76 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
10.5%
2025 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
99.6%
2025 · EU pctl 97 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
4,093,770
2024 · EU pctl 84
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
545 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 30 · 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.
1,253
CURRENT · EU pctl 62
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
380
CURRENT · EU pctl 47
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
51
CURRENT · EU pctl 46
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)
207,386
2025 · EU pctl 62
Population aged 65+
73,953
2025 · EU pctl 61
Population aged under 15
48,634
2025 · EU pctl 64
Median age of population
43.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 24
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.7%
2025 · EU pctl 43
Crude rate of total population change
3.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 70
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 57
Crude birth rate
8.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 70
Crude death rate
10.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 27
Live births
2,814
2024 · EU pctl 68
Deaths
3,398
2024 · EU pctl 57
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
59.1%
2025 · EU pctl 49
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.46
2024 · EU pctl 62
Population density (persons per km²)
231 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 68
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
14.9%
2025 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.7 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,018 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
239 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
53 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
-1 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 0
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 14
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
27 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 18
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
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
5
2024 · EU pctl 9
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
57
2024 · EU pctl 67
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