NUTS-3 SE224 · Sweden
Skåne län
Export region data (CSV)Skåne län generates €65bn of GDP across 1.4m residents. Its Opportunity Index of 61.7/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and livability. Its economy has grown +3.5%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 2.8pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for education (92th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (31.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
61.7
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth42
Livability60.7
Market access48
Economic scale96
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)
60.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability28
Labour stability79
Diversification52
Demographic stability84
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)
39.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density11
Airport access60
Market access48
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)
93
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary81
Lifelong learning99
Knowledge workers96
Scientists & engineers96
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)
75
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.57 µg/m³
PM1011.8 µg/m³
NO210.1 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)
60.7
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy53.5
Jobs31.5
Education92
Health82
Safety50
Connectivity40
Environment76
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
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.5%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.0 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.4 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.7%
CAGR
Employment rate
+2.8 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.2 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 · 28%Diversified · HHI 2238
Agriculture 2.5%Industry 14.3%Construction 6.1%Trade · transport · ICT 28%Finance · real estate · prof. 23.3%Public · health · education 25.8%
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 · 71 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€58,076M
2024 · EU pctl 96
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€1,472M
2024 · EU pctl 99
GVA — industry (B–E)
€8,279M
2024 · EU pctl 94
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€6,328M
2024 · EU pctl 94
GVA — construction (F)
€3,568M
2024 · EU pctl 97
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€16,282M
2024 · EU pctl 97
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€22,800
2023 · EU pctl 40 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
38,200 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 67
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€45,200
2024 · EU pctl 76
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€16,793M
2023 · EU pctl 60 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,969M
2023 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€34,013M
2023 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€5,651M
2024 · EU pctl 93
GVA — information & communication (J)
€3,521M
2024 · EU pctl 93
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€13,515M
2024 · EU pctl 96
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€14,960M
2024 · EU pctl 97
Labour market
Employment, total persons
685,100
2024 · EU pctl 96
Self-employed persons
39,900
2024 · EU pctl 80
Employment in manufacturing (C)
60,800
2024 · EU pctl 92
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
83.4%
2025 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
24.7%
2025 · EU pctl 84 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
112,972
2023 · EU pctl 96
Enterprise births
9,748
2023 · EU pctl 94
Enterprise deaths
8,239
2023 · EU pctl 94
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.2%
2023 · EU pctl 70
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
503
2012 · EU pctl 99
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
402 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 93
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
3.7%
2023 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
6.4%
2025 · EU pctl 82 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
52.2%
2025 · EU pctl 96 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
49.9%
2025 · EU pctl 81 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
37.9%
2025 · EU pctl 99 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
35.4%
2025 · EU pctl 96 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
13.8%
2025 · EU pctl 96 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
96.5%
2025 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
6,670,720
2024 · EU pctl 91
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
461 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 13 · 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.
68
CURRENT · EU pctl 23
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.
46
CURRENT · EU pctl 40
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)
895,038
2025 · EU pctl 97
Population aged 65+
286,963
2025 · EU pctl 97
Population aged under 15
246,625
2025 · EU pctl 97
Median age of population
40.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 6
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
32.1%
2025 · EU pctl 22
Crude rate of total population change
4.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 75
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
3.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 43
Crude birth rate
9.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 91
Crude death rate
8.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 9
Live births
13,521
2024 · EU pctl 97
Deaths
12,200
2024 · EU pctl 96
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
59.6%
2025 · EU pctl 53
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.45
2024 · EU pctl 61
Population density (persons per km²)
130 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 50
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
21.4%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.7 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
183 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 1 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
868 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 22 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
213 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
61.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 86
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
623 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 95
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
3,030 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 98
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
18 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 2 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
75 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 22
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 6
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
73 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 67
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 24
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
12
2024 · EU pctl 18
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
10
2024 · EU pctl 34
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
55
2024 · EU pctl 55
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