NUTS-3 NL230 · Netherlands
Flevoland
Export region data (CSV)Flevoland generates €22bn of GDP across 456.4k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 78.6/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by market access and economic scale. Its economy has grown +7.7%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 3.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for jobs (81.5th EU percentile) and weakest for health (49.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
78.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth73.2
Livability65.2
Market access93
Economic scale83
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)
69
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability51
Labour stability35
Diversification92
Demographic stability98
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)
58
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density31
Airport access50
Market access93
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)
82.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary67
Lifelong learning93
Knowledge workers79
Scientists & engineers90
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)
69.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.57.8 µg/m³
PM1013.2 µg/m³
NO28.2 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)
65.2
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy64.5
Jobs81.5
Education78
Health49.5
Safety50.5
Connectivity61.5
Environment70.7
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
73.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+7.7%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+6.2%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.5 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+1.6 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.5%
CAGR
Employment rate
+3.1 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.2 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: Finance · real estate · prof. · 24.9%Diversified · HHI 1937
Agriculture 4.5%Industry 17.7%Construction 4.3%Trade · transport · ICT 24.3%Finance · real estate · prof. 24.9%Public · health · education 19.3%
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)
€19,635M
2024 · EU pctl 83
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€875M
2023 · EU pctl 96
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,473M
2023 · EU pctl 78
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,767M
2023 · EU pctl 62
GVA — construction (F)
€842M
2023 · EU pctl 75
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€4,779M
2023 · EU pctl 85
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€25,100
2023 · EU pctl 53 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
41,300 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 76
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€48,200
2024 · EU pctl 81
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€4,106M
2023 · EU pctl 11 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€407M
2023 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€8,408M
2023 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,493M
2023 · EU pctl 67
GVA — information & communication (J)
€572M
2023 · EU pctl 78
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€4,898M
2023 · EU pctl 83
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€3,783M
2023 · EU pctl 80
Labour market
Employment, total persons
204,800
2024 · EU pctl 74
Self-employed persons
41,700
2023 · EU pctl 82
Employment in manufacturing (C)
15,200
2023 · EU pctl 44
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
86.6%
2025 · EU pctl 100 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
8.1%
2025 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
56,001
2023 · EU pctl 87
Enterprise births
6,175
2023 · EU pctl 89
Enterprise deaths
3,091
2023 · EU pctl 78
3-year enterprise survival rate
7.3%
2023 · EU pctl 99
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
26
2012 · EU pctl 62
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
65 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 43
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
6.7%
2025 · EU pctl 85 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
41.9%
2025 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
45.4%
2025 · EU pctl 67 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
25.6%
2025 · EU pctl 93 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
28.0%
2025 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
12.4%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
99.0%
2025 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,958,029
2024 · EU pctl 77
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
910 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 100 · 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.
858
CURRENT · EU pctl 49
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
188
CURRENT · EU pctl 31
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.
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
302,509
2025 · EU pctl 76
Population aged 65+
72,677
2025 · EU pctl 60
Population aged under 15
81,209
2025 · EU pctl 81
Median age of population
39.0 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 2
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
24.0%
2025 · EU pctl 2
Crude rate of total population change
12.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 94
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
8.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 78
Crude birth rate
10.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 98
Crude death rate
6.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 2
Live births
4,890
2024 · EU pctl 85
Deaths
3,033
2024 · EU pctl 51
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
50.9%
2025 · EU pctl 8
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.58
2024 · EU pctl 85
Population density (persons per km²)
316 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 75
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
13.9%
2025 · EU pctl 11 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
81.9 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,033 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 53 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
257 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 85 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
47.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 81
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
185 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 44
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,085 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
37 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
-2 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 0
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 18
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
25 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 17
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 46
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 32
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
8
2024 · EU pctl 22
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
55
2024 · EU pctl 58
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