NUTS-3 PT1C1 · Portugal
Alentejo Litoral
Export region data (CSV)Alentejo Litoral generates €3.1bn of GDP across 102.2k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 36.6/100 sits in the lower tier of EU regions, led by economic growth and livability. Its economy has grown +5.0%/yr over five years, with the employment rate up 5.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (73.3th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (10th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
36.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth73.8
Livability37.4
Market access19
Economic scale16
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)
67.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability1
Labour stability87
Diversification86
Demographic stability96
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)
16
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density16
Airport access13
Market access19
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)
44.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary30
Lifelong learning80
Knowledge workers26
Scientists & engineers41
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)
73
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.56.5 µg/m³
PM1016.2 µg/m³
NO22.8 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)
37.4
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy45.5
Jobs47.5
Education18.5
Health36
Safety31
Connectivity10
Environment73.3
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
73.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+5.0%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.0 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.9 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.3%
CAGR
Employment rate
+5.1 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 · 25.5%Diversified · HHI 2015
Agriculture 14.5%Industry 25.5%Construction 3.5%Trade · transport · ICT 24.9%Finance · real estate · prof. 18.2%Public · health · education 13.8%
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 · 68 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€2,720M
2024 · EU pctl 15
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€394M
2023 · EU pctl 82
GVA — industry (B–E)
€694M
2023 · EU pctl 21
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€646M
2023 · EU pctl 28
GVA — construction (F)
€95M
2023 · EU pctl 9
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€679M
2023 · EU pctl 24
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€15,800
2023 · EU pctl 26 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
37,300 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 65
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€30,700
2024 · EU pctl 39
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€3,228M
2023 · EU pctl 8 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€913M
2023 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€4,721M
2023 · EU pctl 6 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€271M
2023 · EU pctl 17
GVA — information & communication (J)
€10M
2023 · EU pctl 5
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€494M
2023 · EU pctl 14
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€375M
2023 · EU pctl 7
Labour market
Employment, total persons
57,850
2023 · EU pctl 21
Self-employed persons
10,620
2023 · EU pctl 37
Employment in manufacturing (C)
3,870
2023 · EU pctl 8
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
78.8%
2025 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
25.0%
2024 · EU pctl 87 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
11,228
2023 · EU pctl 43
Enterprise births
1,965
2023 · EU pctl 62
Enterprise deaths
1,310
2023 · EU pctl 57
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.1%
2023 · EU pctl 67
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.8%
2024 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
2.0%
2025 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
26.2%
2025 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
34.5%
2025 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
16.8%
2025 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
19.7%
2025 · EU pctl 26 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
7.8%
2025 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
87.9%
2025 · EU pctl 4 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,142,727
2024 · EU pctl 71
Mobility
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
9
CURRENT · EU pctl 9
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
9
CURRENT · EU pctl 16
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
104
CURRENT · EU pctl 87
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
0
CURRENT · EU pctl 0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
62,961
2025 · EU pctl 15
Population aged 65+
27,148
2025 · EU pctl 18
Population aged under 15
12,109
2025 · EU pctl 12
Median age of population
47.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 63
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
43.1%
2025 · EU pctl 80
Crude rate of total population change
8.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 88
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
13.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 92
Crude birth rate
7.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 51
Crude death rate
12.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 65
Live births
792
2024 · EU pctl 17
Deaths
1,283
2024 · EU pctl 14
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
62.4%
2025 · EU pctl 70
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.64
2024 · EU pctl 91
Population density (persons per km²)
20 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 3
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
19.7%
2025 · EU pctl 49 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.9 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
223 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 6 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
231 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 55 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 68
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
48.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 81
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
134 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 30
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
646 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 40
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
137 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 99 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
123 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 34
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
56 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 94
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 2
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 44
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
16
2024 · EU pctl 63
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).
50
2024 · EU pctl 28
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