NUTS-3 PT11A · Portugal
Área Metropolitana do Porto
Export region data (CSV)Área Metropolitana do Porto generates €47bn of GDP across 1.8m residents. Its Opportunity Index of 61/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +6.3%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 4.4pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (75.5th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (8.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
61
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth75.6
Livability40.2
Market access34
Economic scale94
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 stability46
Labour stability12
Diversification81
Demographic stability87
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)
44
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density11
Airport access87
Market access34
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)
27
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.59.4 µg/m³
PM1020.5 µg/m³
NO215.4 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)
40.2
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy32
Jobs38.5
Education46.5
Health75.5
Safety52.3
Connectivity8.5
Environment28
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
75.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+6.3%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+5.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.8 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.4 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.8%
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: Trade · transport · ICT · 26.4%Diversified · HHI 2068
Agriculture 0.7%Industry 18.7%Construction 3.9%Trade · transport · ICT 26.4%Finance · real estate · prof. 26.2%Public · health · education 17.8%
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)
€40,843M
2024 · EU pctl 94
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€294M
2023 · EU pctl 73
GVA — industry (B–E)
€7,623M
2023 · EU pctl 93
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€7,033M
2023 · EU pctl 95
GVA — construction (F)
€1,593M
2023 · EU pctl 90
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€10,793M
2023 · EU pctl 95
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)
31,500 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 44
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€25,900
2024 · EU pctl 29
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)
€3,762M
2023 · EU pctl 88
GVA — information & communication (J)
€2,184M
2023 · EU pctl 89
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€10,716M
2023 · EU pctl 94
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€7,273M
2023 · EU pctl 93
Labour market
Employment, total persons
886,580
2023 · EU pctl 98
Self-employed persons
117,820
2023 · EU pctl 98
Employment in manufacturing (C)
166,050
2023 · EU pctl 100
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)
247,900
2023 · EU pctl 99
Enterprise births
44,100
2023 · EU pctl 100
Enterprise deaths
28,477
2023 · EU pctl 99
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.2%
2023 · EU pctl 68
Innovation & R&D
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)
9,999,113
2024 · EU pctl 94
Mobility
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
81
CURRENT · EU pctl 24
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
5
CURRENT · EU pctl 11
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
19
CURRENT · EU pctl 13
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)
1,169,572
2025 · EU pctl 98
Population aged 65+
426,591
2025 · EU pctl 99
Population aged under 15
222,054
2025 · EU pctl 96
Median age of population
47.2 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 61
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
36.5%
2025 · EU pctl 49
Crude rate of total population change
8.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 89
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
11.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 89
Crude birth rate
7.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 33
Crude death rate
9.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 17
Live births
12,674
2024 · EU pctl 97
Deaths
17,395
2024 · EU pctl 99
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
55.5%
2025 · EU pctl 24
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.19
2024 · EU pctl 19
Population density (persons per km²)
893 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 89
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
0.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
97.5 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 94
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
162 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 38
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
907 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 57
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
50 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
116 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 33
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
21 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 78
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 5
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
25 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 98
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
21
2024 · EU pctl 82
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
15
2024 · EU pctl 69
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
51
2024 · EU pctl 34
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