NUTS-3 SK010 · Slovakia
Bratislavský kraj
Export region data (CSV)Bratislavský kraj generates €36bn of GDP across 736.4k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 70.4/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +6.4%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 4.5pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for jobs (95.5th EU percentile) and weakest for health (21th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
70.4
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth78.4
Livability56.1
Market access55
Economic scale92
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)
59
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability69
Labour stability46
Diversification21
Demographic stability100
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)
60.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density39
Airport access87
Market access55
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
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary91
Lifelong learning86
Knowledge workers98
Scientists & engineers93
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)
26
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.512 µg/m³
PM1019.4 µg/m³
NO213.9 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)
56.1
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy64
Jobs95.5
Education78.5
Health21
Safety51.3
Connectivity56.5
Environment26
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
78.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+6.4%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+5.3%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.1 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-0.3 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+1.9%
CAGR
Employment rate
+4.5 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-0.9 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. · 33.9%Diversified · HHI 2487
Agriculture 0.7%Industry 13.6%Construction 5%Trade · transport · ICT 27.4%Finance · real estate · prof. 33.9%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 · 71 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€33,022M
2024 · EU pctl 92
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€231M
2024 · EU pctl 65
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,504M
2024 · EU pctl 85
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,648M
2024 · EU pctl 86
GVA — construction (F)
€1,656M
2024 · EU pctl 91
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€9,054M
2024 · EU pctl 94
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€18,700
2023 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
61,000 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 95
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€48,800
2024 · EU pctl 82
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€9,259M
2024 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,651M
2024 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€14,711M
2023 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€5,005M
2024 · EU pctl 92
GVA — information & communication (J)
€2,013M
2024 · EU pctl 88
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€11,198M
2024 · EU pctl 94
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€6,380M
2024 · EU pctl 90
Labour market
Employment, total persons
478,030
2024 · EU pctl 93
Self-employed persons
47,780
2024 · EU pctl 85
Employment in manufacturing (C)
53,510
2023 · EU pctl 89
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
80.6%
2025 · EU pctl 72 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
155,001
2023 · EU pctl 98
Enterprise births
18,570
2023 · EU pctl 98
Enterprise deaths
20,939
2023 · EU pctl 99
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.7%
2023 · EU pctl 82
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
6
2012 · EU pctl 29
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
10 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 19
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.8%
2023 · EU pctl 60 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
14.3%
2025 · EU pctl 100 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
54.8%
2025 · EU pctl 97 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
55.5%
2025 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
18.7%
2025 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
39.5%
2025 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
13.2%
2025 · EU pctl 93 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
96.6%
2025 · EU pctl 74 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,607,211
2024 · EU pctl 75
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
681 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 89 · 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.
2,150
CURRENT · EU pctl 82
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
292
CURRENT · EU pctl 39
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
19
CURRENT · EU pctl 13
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)
475,592
2025 · EU pctl 90
Population aged 65+
137,868
2025 · EU pctl 86
Population aged under 15
122,925
2025 · EU pctl 91
Median age of population
42.9 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 18
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
29.0%
2025 · EU pctl 11
Crude rate of total population change
4.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 76
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 55
Crude birth rate
8.3 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 64
Crude death rate
8.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 9
Live births
6,071
2024 · EU pctl 90
Deaths
6,348
2024 · EU pctl 83
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
54.8%
2025 · EU pctl 20
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.30
2024 · EU pctl 34
Population density (persons per km²)
364 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 78
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
2.9%
2025 · EU pctl 0 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
80.6 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
644 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 84 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,412 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 83 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
261 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 87 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 80
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
4.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 8
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
95.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 18
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
235 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 15
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
46 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
569 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 85
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 25
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
106 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 89
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 59
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
19
2024 · EU pctl 79
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14
2024 · EU pctl 60
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
56
2024 · EU pctl 63
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