NUTS-3 RO311 · Romania
Argeş
Export region data (CSV)Argeş generates €8.9bn of GDP across 562k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 35.1/100 sits in the lower tier of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +8.0%/yr over five years, with the employment rate down 1.1pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for safety (50th EU percentile) and weakest for education (3th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
35.1
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth42.2
Livability18.1
Market access25
Economic scale55
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)
38
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability14
Labour stability49
Diversification67
Demographic stability22
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)
18.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density13
Airport access17
Market access25
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)
16
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary1
Lifelong learning59
Knowledge workers0
Scientists & engineers4
Young tertiary attainment (25–34), adult lifelong learning, knowledge-worker share and scientists & engineers — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = deeper talent pool. Experimental.
Quality of Life · composite (experimental)
18.1
/ 100 · EU-relative · 6/7 pillars
Economy14
Jobs11
Education3
Health3.5
Safety50
Connectivity27
Environment—
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
42.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+8.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+8.0%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.1 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-1.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.5%
CAGR
Employment rate
-1.1 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
+2.7 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 · 29.4%Diversified · HHI 2152
Agriculture 3.3%Industry 29.4%Construction 8.8%Trade · transport · ICT 25.7%Finance · real estate · prof. 16%Public · health · education 16.8%
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 · 70 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€8,064M
2024 · EU pctl 55
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€268M
2024 · EU pctl 70
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,372M
2024 · EU pctl 64
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,077M
2023 · EU pctl 68
GVA — construction (F)
€707M
2024 · EU pctl 68
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,075M
2024 · EU pctl 64
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€7,400
2023 · EU pctl 2 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
26,200 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 26
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€15,800
2024 · EU pctl 12
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€7,781M
2023 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,628M
2023 · EU pctl 37 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€12,452M
2023 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€607M
2024 · EU pctl 37
GVA — information & communication (J)
€141M
2024 · EU pctl 49
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,290M
2024 · EU pctl 44
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,351M
2024 · EU pctl 45
Labour market
Employment, total persons
252,390
2024 · EU pctl 81
Self-employed persons
32,810
2023 · EU pctl 73
Employment in manufacturing (C)
79,630
2023 · EU pctl 96
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
68.4%
2025 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
39.3%
2025 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
28,603
2023 · EU pctl 71
Enterprise births
3,396
2023 · EU pctl 77
Enterprise deaths
1,866
2023 · EU pctl 67
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.7%
2023 · EU pctl 81
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
0
2012 · EU pctl 2
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
0 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 0
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.4%
2023 · EU pctl 5 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
1.5%
2025 · EU pctl 3 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
14.0%
2025 · EU pctl 1 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
16.7%
2025 · EU pctl 1 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
11.4%
2025 · EU pctl 59 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
11.8%
2025 · EU pctl 0 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
4.6%
2025 · EU pctl 4 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
94.7%
2025 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
401,494
2025 · EU pctl 27
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
403 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 3 · 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.
38
CURRENT · EU pctl 18
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
7
CURRENT · EU pctl 13
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
95
CURRENT · EU pctl 83
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)
364,358
2025 · EU pctl 82
Population aged 65+
119,715
2025 · EU pctl 80
Population aged under 15
77,917
2025 · EU pctl 79
Median age of population
46.4 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 52
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
32.9%
2025 · EU pctl 26
Crude rate of total population change
-5.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 17
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
1.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 20
Crude birth rate
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Crude death rate
12.7 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Live births
3,733
2024 · EU pctl 76
Deaths
7,144
2024 · EU pctl 88
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
54.2%
2025 · EU pctl 18
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.33
2024 · EU pctl 38
Population density (persons per km²)
83 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 34
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
27.5%
2025 · EU pctl 85 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
76.3 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 3 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
541 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 60 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,895 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 96 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
207 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.5 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 41
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
9.7 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 24
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
108 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 22
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
295 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 18
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
76 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
410 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 74
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
12 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 68
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
92 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 83
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
6 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 68
Environment
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
27
2024 · EU pctl 0
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