NUTS-3 SK023 · Slovakia
Nitriansky kraj
Export region data (CSV)Nitriansky kraj generates €15bn of GDP across 665.6k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 53.9/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +7.9%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 5.4pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for jobs (66.5th EU percentile) and weakest for health (11th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
53.9
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth70.8
Livability28.7
Market access43
Economic scale73
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)
25.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability23
Labour stability18
Diversification32
Demographic stability30
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)
25.7
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density11
Airport access23
Market access43
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)
26.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary32
Lifelong learning51
Knowledge workers8
Scientists & engineers14
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)
21.7
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.515.8 µg/m³
PM1022.3 µg/m³
NO213 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)
28.7
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy21.5
Jobs66.5
Education18.5
Health11
Safety50
Connectivity11.5
Environment22
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
70.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+7.9%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+5.9%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+2.0 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+1.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.3%
CAGR
Employment rate
+5.4 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-1.4 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: Industry · 37.1%Diversified · HHI 2366
Agriculture 3.2%Industry 37.1%Construction 8.7%Trade · transport · ICT 21.5%Finance · real estate · prof. 16.4%Public · health · education 13%
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 · 72 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€13,131M
2024 · EU pctl 73
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€419M
2024 · EU pctl 84
GVA — industry (B–E)
€4,875M
2024 · EU pctl 87
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,743M
2024 · EU pctl 77
GVA — construction (F)
€1,146M
2024 · EU pctl 83
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€2,823M
2024 · EU pctl 74
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€11,900
2023 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
27,000 PPS
2024 · EU pctl 28
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€21,600
2024 · EU pctl 22
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€8,200M
2024 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€3,104M
2024 · EU pctl 66 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€15,474M
2023 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,018M
2024 · EU pctl 53
GVA — information & communication (J)
€349M
2024 · EU pctl 67
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,159M
2024 · EU pctl 63
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,709M
2024 · EU pctl 55
Labour market
Employment, total persons
294,230
2024 · EU pctl 85
Self-employed persons
43,160
2024 · EU pctl 83
Employment in manufacturing (C)
74,320
2023 · EU pctl 94
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
76.7%
2025 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
13.0%
2020 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
76,705
2023 · EU pctl 92
Enterprise births
8,765
2023 · EU pctl 93
Enterprise deaths
10,801
2023 · EU pctl 96
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.8%
2023 · EU pctl 84
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
4
2012 · EU pctl 22
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
6 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 14
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.9%
2023 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.8%
2025 · EU pctl 40 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
25.0%
2025 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
35.3%
2025 · EU pctl 32 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
10.2%
2025 · EU pctl 51 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
16.8%
2025 · EU pctl 8 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
5.7%
2025 · EU pctl 14 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
91.1%
2025 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
730,499
2024 · EU pctl 43
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
528 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 26 · 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.
34
CURRENT · EU pctl 17
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.
84
CURRENT · EU pctl 77
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
CURRENT · EU pctl 15
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
437,591
2025 · EU pctl 88
Population aged 65+
136,851
2025 · EU pctl 86
Population aged under 15
91,158
2025 · EU pctl 84
Median age of population
45.3 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 41
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
31.3%
2025 · EU pctl 18
Crude rate of total population change
-4.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 20
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
0.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 15
Crude birth rate
7.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 37
Crude death rate
11.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 48
Live births
4,831
2024 · EU pctl 85
Deaths
7,638
2024 · EU pctl 90
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
52.1%
2025 · EU pctl 11
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.29
2024 · EU pctl 32
Population density (persons per km²)
106 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 43
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
14.0%
2025 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
78.4 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 13 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
467 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 49 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,707 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
271 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 63
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
6.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 13
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
39.2 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 5
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
98.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 2
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
66 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 85 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
150 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 40
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
21 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 78
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
77 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 70
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 55
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
22
2024 · EU pctl 86
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
13
2024 · EU pctl 54
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
51
2024 · EU pctl 35
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