NUTS-3 SE121 · Sweden
Uppsala län
Uppsala län generates €21bn of GDP across 407.9k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 57.6/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and livability. Its economy has grown +4.8%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 1.2pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for education (90th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (18th).
Long-run trajectory · EU percentile of real GDP per head, 1995–2024
Enduring leader76 → 86 EU percentile since 1995 (+11 ranks)
Yearly EU-wide percentile of real GDP per head (ARDECO regional accounts, constant 2020 prices, derived over population). 50 = the EU median that year; percentiles are scale-free, so decades are directly comparable. See the backtest for what long-run prosperity ranks do — and don't — anticipate.
Mandate pillar profile · EU percentiles (screener dimensions)
Energy cost97
Demographic outlook95
Governance93
Talent & skills93
Air quality82
Economic base80
Freight intensity65
Cost advantage62
Quality of life59
Labour market55
Resilience55
Growth momentum48
Connectivity35
Digital readiness30
Industrial base26
Each bar is this region's EU percentile on a screener pillar (higher = better for siting; cost & energy are inverted so cheap scores high). These are the exact weights you tune in the Site Screener.
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
57.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth48.2
Livability59.1
Market access41
Economic scale82
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)
54.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability25
Labour stability79
Diversification19
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)
35.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density6
Airport access59
Market access41
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)
92.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary82
Lifelong learning100
Knowledge workers93
Scientists & engineers95
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)
81.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.54.2 µg/m³
PM109 µg/m³
NO212.4 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)
59.1
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy59
Jobs31.5
Education90
Health84.5
Safety49
Connectivity18
Environment82
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
48.2
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.8%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.4%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.4 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+1.6 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.2%
CAGR
Employment rate
+1.2 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
0.0 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. · 37.9%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2526
Agriculture 1.8%Industry 15.7%Construction 5.7%Trade · transport · ICT 14.4%Finance · real estate · prof. 37.9%Public · health · education 24.6%
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).
Trends · 2009–2024
GDP (current prices)
€20,916M2024
7.1% 1y 4.8% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 82
Real GDP (2020 prices)
€19,497M2025
1.6% 1y 2.8% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 83
Population
407,9122025
0.8% 1y 1.2% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 71
Unemployment rate
9.4%2025
3.3% 1y 1.6% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 91
Employment
195,3902024
0.9% 1y 0.7% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 72
Productivity / employee
€113,8892025
6.3% 1y 4.6% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 91
Gross value added
€18,732M2024
7.4% 1y 5.0% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 81
Dwelling price
2,320 kSEK2025
0.6% 1y 1.1% 5y CAGR
EU percentile 80
All indicators · 89 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€18,732M
2024 · EU pctl 81
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€344M
2024 · EU pctl 78
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,933M
2024 · EU pctl 71
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,167M
2024 · EU pctl 70
GVA — construction (F)
€1,063M
2024 · EU pctl 81
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,694M
2024 · EU pctl 72
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€22,200
2023 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
43,200 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 80
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€51,200
2024 · EU pctl 85
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€19,140M
2023 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€3,614M
2023 · EU pctl 76 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€37,294M
2023 · EU pctl 56 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,134M
2024 · EU pctl 58
GVA — information & communication (J)
€649M
2024 · EU pctl 79
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€7,098M
2024 · EU pctl 90
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€4,600M
2024 · EU pctl 85
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€19,497M
2025 · EU pctl 83
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€113,889
2025 · EU pctl 91
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€5,424M
2025 · EU pctl 85
Labour market
Employment, total persons
195,390
2024 · EU pctl 72
Self-employed persons
11,100
2024 · EU pctl 39
Employment in manufacturing (C)
13,400
2024 · EU pctl 40
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
82.3%
2025 · EU pctl 81 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
28.1%
2025 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
9.4%
2025 · EU pctl 91
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
225,100
2025 · EU pctl 75
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
29,793
2023 · EU pctl 73
Enterprise births
2,528
2023 · EU pctl 69
Enterprise deaths
2,028
2023 · EU pctl 69
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.2%
2023 · EU pctl 68
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
4.4%
2023 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
6.2%
2025 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE)
2.5%
2023 · EU pctl 90 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
46.6%
2025 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
50.5%
2025 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
38.4%
2025 · EU pctl 100 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
33.0%
2025 · EU pctl 93 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
13.7%
2025 · EU pctl 95 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
94.0%
2025 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,201,527
2025 · EU pctl 57
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
474 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 14 · NUTS-2 src
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
14,429 kt
2025 · EU pctl 77
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
6
CURRENT · EU pctl 7
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 6
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²)
16 km/1000km²
2024 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
46
CURRENT · EU pctl 41
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 50
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
261,163
2025 · EU pctl 72
Population aged 65+
77,883
2025 · EU pctl 64
Population aged under 15
68,866
2025 · EU pctl 76
Median age of population
38.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 1
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
29.8%
2025 · EU pctl 13
Crude rate of total population change
8.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 88
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 63
Crude birth rate
9.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 91
Crude death rate
7.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 5
Live births
3,845
2024 · EU pctl 77
Deaths
3,090
2024 · EU pctl 52
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
56.2%
2025 · EU pctl 29
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.33
2024 · EU pctl 38
Population density (persons per km²)
50 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 16
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
479,701
2100 · EU pctl 80
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
185 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 2 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
859 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 17 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
207 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
36.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 72
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
531 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 91
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,399 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 96
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
23 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 6 · NUTS-2 src
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.91
2022 · EU pctl 95
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.62
2022 · EU pctl 91
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
1.74
2022 · EU pctl 93
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
2.03
2022 · EU pctl 93
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.94
2022 · EU pctl 93
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.085/kWh
2025-S2 · EU pctl 3
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.073/kWh
2025-S2 · EU pctl 98
Housing market
Average sold price, tenant-owned flats (SEK thousands, Statistics Sweden)
2,320 kSEK
2025 · EU pctl 80
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
37 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 11
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 11
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
120 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 92
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 5
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
9
2024 · EU pctl 3
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
12
2024 · EU pctl 50
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
68
2024 · EU pctl 92
Industrial facilities per 100k inhabitants (E-PRTR)
30.0 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 53
Population in the 100-year river floodplain (% of residents, EFAS × census grid)
12.7%
2021 · EU pctl 91
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