NUTS-3 SI044 · Slovenia
Obalno-kraška
Export region data (CSV)Obalno-kraška generates €3.5bn of GDP across 119.6k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 43.6/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic growth and livability. Its economy has grown +5.5%/yr over five years, with the employment rate up 2.8pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for education (74th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (25th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
43.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth68.6
Livability51.7
Market access35
Economic scale19
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)
41
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability29
Labour stability39
Diversification16
Demographic stability80
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)
34.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density8
Airport access60
Market access35
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)
81.8
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary70
Lifelong learning93
Knowledge workers84
Scientists & engineers80
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)
34.3
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.510.3 µg/m³
PM1015 µg/m³
NO215 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)
51.7
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy40.5
Jobs64.5
Education74
Health74
Safety48.7
Connectivity25
Environment35.3
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
68.6
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+5.5%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+5.6%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
-0.1 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.8 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.6%
CAGR
Employment rate
+2.8 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.8 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 · 39.8%Moderately concentrated · HHI 2572
Agriculture 1.2%Industry 12.5%Construction 6.9%Trade · transport · ICT 39.8%Finance · real estate · prof. 20.3%Public · health · education 19.3%
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)
€3,058M
2024 · EU pctl 19
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€38M
2024 · EU pctl 16
GVA — industry (B–E)
€381M
2024 · EU pctl 10
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€306M
2024 · EU pctl 12
GVA — construction (F)
€211M
2024 · EU pctl 21
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,217M
2024 · EU pctl 43
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€17,400
2024 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
33,000 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 50
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€28,900
2024 · EU pctl 35
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€7,464M
2023 · EU pctl 22 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,358M
2023 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€20,182M
2024 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€228M
2024 · EU pctl 14
GVA — information & communication (J)
€81M
2024 · EU pctl 38
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€620M
2024 · EU pctl 20
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€591M
2024 · EU pctl 13
Labour market
Employment, total persons
57,810
2024 · EU pctl 21
Self-employed persons
12,220
2024 · EU pctl 41
Employment in manufacturing (C)
5,910
2024 · EU pctl 15
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
76.8%
2025 · EU pctl 42 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
10.8%
2025 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
14,189
2023 · EU pctl 51
Enterprise births
1,524
2023 · EU pctl 55
Enterprise deaths
1,622
2023 · EU pctl 64
3-year enterprise survival rate
7.6%
2023 · EU pctl 100
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.6%
2023 · EU pctl 78 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
7.9%
2025 · EU pctl 92 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
39.7%
2025 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
45.7%
2025 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
25.4%
2025 · EU pctl 93 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
29.5%
2025 · EU pctl 84 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
10.9%
2025 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
94.8%
2025 · EU pctl 42 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
3,434,373
2025 · EU pctl 80
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
582 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 40 · 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.
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 4
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 8
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.
4
CURRENT · EU pctl 90
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
74,807
2025 · EU pctl 20
Population aged 65+
28,927
2025 · EU pctl 21
Population aged under 15
15,893
2025 · EU pctl 19
Median age of population
47.3 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 62
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
38.7%
2025 · EU pctl 62
Crude rate of total population change
3.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
7.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 70
Crude birth rate
6.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 23
Crude death rate
10.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 22
Live births
777
2024 · EU pctl 16
Deaths
1,196
2024 · EU pctl 12
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
59.9%
2025 · EU pctl 55
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.30
2024 · EU pctl 34
Population density (persons per km²)
115 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 46
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
13.1%
2025 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.2 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
478 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 50 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
931 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 31 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
287 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 94 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.8 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 60
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
22.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 52
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
260 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 60
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,242 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 73
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
31 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
478 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 80
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
9 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 57
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
61 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 54
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
25 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 98
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
15
2024 · EU pctl 53
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
15
2024 · EU pctl 66
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
69
2024 · EU pctl 93
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