NUTS-3 SE321 · Sweden
Västernorrlands län
Export region data (CSV)Västernorrlands län generates €12bn of GDP across 241.5k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 42.5/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and livability. Its economy has grown +4.0%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 4.5pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (69.5th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (50th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
42.5
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth41.8
Livability56.3
Market access5
Economic scale67
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)
48.5
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability22
Labour stability68
Diversification76
Demographic stability28
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)
7.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density13
Airport access4
Market access5
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)
75.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary44
Lifelong learning98
Knowledge workers84
Scientists & engineers76
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)
49.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.55.2 µg/m³
PM1016.4 µg/m³
NO218.5 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)
56.3
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy57
Jobs62
Education53.5
Health69.5
Safety51
Connectivity51
Environment50
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
41.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.2%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.7 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.8 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.3%
CAGR
Employment rate
+4.5 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-1.0 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: Public · health · education · 25.9%Diversified · HHI 2105
Agriculture 3.9%Industry 25.8%Construction 7%Trade · transport · ICT 20.3%Finance · real estate · prof. 17.2%Public · health · education 25.9%
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)
€10,865M
2024 · EU pctl 67
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€425M
2024 · EU pctl 84
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,804M
2024 · EU pctl 70
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,934M
2024 · EU pctl 66
GVA — construction (F)
€757M
2024 · EU pctl 72
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,204M
2024 · EU pctl 66
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€22,000
2023 · EU pctl 37 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
42,100 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 77
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€49,900
2024 · EU pctl 83
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€4,434M
2023 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€686M
2023 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€7,806M
2023 · EU pctl 11 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€736M
2024 · EU pctl 43
GVA — information & communication (J)
€474M
2024 · EU pctl 74
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,865M
2024 · EU pctl 59
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,811M
2024 · EU pctl 73
Labour market
Employment, total persons
122,020
2024 · EU pctl 52
Self-employed persons
7,100
2024 · EU pctl 24
Employment in manufacturing (C)
14,400
2024 · EU pctl 42
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
84.9%
2025 · EU pctl 95 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
19.0%
2025 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
16,894
2023 · EU pctl 55
Enterprise births
1,257
2023 · EU pctl 51
Enterprise deaths
1,210
2023 · EU pctl 55
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.8%
2023 · EU pctl 61
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
16
2012 · EU pctl 49
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
66 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 44
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.1%
2023 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.7%
2025 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
41.8%
2025 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
39.3%
2025 · EU pctl 44 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
34.5%
2025 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
29.4%
2025 · EU pctl 84 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
10.6%
2025 · EU pctl 76 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
98.1%
2025 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
1,324,988
2024 · EU pctl 59
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
555 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 32 · 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.
16
CURRENT · EU pctl 11
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.
154
CURRENT · EU pctl 96
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)
142,373
2025 · EU pctl 47
Population aged 65+
61,269
2025 · EU pctl 52
Population aged under 15
37,816
2025 · EU pctl 53
Median age of population
45.6 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 44
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
43.0%
2025 · EU pctl 79
Crude rate of total population change
-2.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
1.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 23
Crude birth rate
7.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 41
Crude death rate
11.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 55
Live births
1,786
2024 · EU pctl 48
Deaths
2,867
2024 · EU pctl 48
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
69.6%
2025 · EU pctl 89
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.39
2024 · EU pctl 49
Population density (persons per km²)
11 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 1
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
19.8%
2025 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.8 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
205 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 4 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
950 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 35 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
211 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
19.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 45
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
391 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 79
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,496 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 82
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
29 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
109 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 30
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 9
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
174 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 97
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 29
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.
19
2024 · EU pctl 82
Similar regions · nearest peers on standardised NUTS-3 indicators
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