NUTS-3 PT111 · Portugal
Alto Minho
Export region data (CSV)Alto Minho generates €5.0bn of GDP across 234.6k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 43.4/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic growth and livability. Its economy has grown +6.0%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 4.4pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (98.5th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (13th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
43.4
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth67.8
Livability48.9
Market access27
Economic scale30
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)
56.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability63
Labour stability12
Diversification94
Demographic stability57
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)
26
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density20
Airport access31
Market access27
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)
63
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary50
Lifelong learning76
Knowledge workers52
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)
98.5
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 2/3 pollutants
PM2.5—
PM107 µg/m³
NO22.6 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)
48.9
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy22.5
Jobs38.5
Education46.5
Health75.5
Safety47.7
Connectivity13
Environment98.5
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
67.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+6.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+5.0%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.0 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.2%
CAGR
Employment rate
+4.4 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.6 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 · 27.8%Diversified · HHI 1902
Agriculture 1.9%Industry 27.8%Construction 5.8%Trade · transport · ICT 19.3%Finance · real estate · prof. 18.7%Public · health · education 19.2%
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 · 71 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€4,319M
2024 · EU pctl 29
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€83M
2023 · EU pctl 31
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,201M
2023 · EU pctl 38
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€910M
2023 · EU pctl 39
GVA — construction (F)
€249M
2023 · EU pctl 26
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€833M
2023 · EU pctl 30
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€13,800
2023 · EU pctl 20 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
25,800 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 25
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€21,200
2024 · EU pctl 21
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€16,004M
2023 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€3,831M
2023 · EU pctl 77 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€39,066M
2023 · EU pctl 58 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€433M
2023 · EU pctl 28
GVA — information & communication (J)
€39M
2023 · EU pctl 25
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€809M
2023 · EU pctl 27
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€829M
2023 · EU pctl 24
Labour market
Employment, total persons
104,580
2023 · EU pctl 45
Self-employed persons
19,540
2023 · EU pctl 57
Employment in manufacturing (C)
23,100
2023 · EU pctl 61
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
77.8%
2025 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
18.4%
2025 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
29,084
2023 · EU pctl 72
Enterprise births
4,111
2023 · EU pctl 81
Enterprise deaths
3,182
2023 · EU pctl 78
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.9%
2023 · EU pctl 62
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
1
2012 · EU pctl 6
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
3 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 7
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.0%
2024 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.4%
2025 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
29.8%
2025 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
41.3%
2025 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
15.7%
2025 · EU pctl 76 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
23.3%
2025 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
10.5%
2025 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
88.8%
2025 · EU pctl 6 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,196,437
2024 · EU pctl 57
Mobility
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
36
CURRENT · EU pctl 17
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
15
CURRENT · EU pctl 20
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
73
CURRENT · EU pctl 69
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)
140,731
2025 · EU pctl 47
Population aged 65+
68,549
2025 · EU pctl 57
Population aged under 15
25,365
2025 · EU pctl 38
Median age of population
50.6 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 88
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
48.7%
2025 · EU pctl 92
Crude rate of total population change
1.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 56
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
9.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 83
Crude birth rate
6.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 23
Crude death rate
13.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 78
Live births
1,518
2024 · EU pctl 42
Deaths
3,192
2024 · EU pctl 54
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
66.7%
2025 · EU pctl 84
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.29
2024 · EU pctl 32
Population density (persons per km²)
107 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 43
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
18.7%
2025 · EU pctl 42 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.1 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
333 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
914 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
207 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.9 /100k
2022 · EU pctl 61
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
23.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 53
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
191 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 47
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
562 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 35
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
50 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
546 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 83
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
6 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 35
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
17 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 13
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
37 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 100
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.
3
2024 · EU pctl 2
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
76
2024 · EU pctl 98
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