1. regIonaL INDICATORS ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT EC-Eurostat Working Group on Regional, Urban and Rural development statistics
Eric Gonnard, statistician
OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate
Luxembourg October 2015

2. Outline Regional typology at the OECD: transition phase
Few evidence on rural regions
Overview: regional indicator cycle
Working party on territorial indicators (slide 5)
Territorial indicators: data collection
Territorial indicators: rational and main indicators
Territorial definitions
OECD Regions at a Glance (slide 47)
Measuring the environmental performance using GIS (slide 66)
OECD Project on regional well-being (slide 73)

3. OECD Regional typology
Current typology
Predominantly Urban (PU), Intermediate (IN), Predominantly Rural (PR) at TL3 level
1) based on population density at municipal level where communities are defined rural if density is < 150 inhab./km2 (< 500 in Japan)
2) proportion of rural population in the region ( >50%  Predominantly rural (PR), <15%  Predominantly urban (PU), other Intermediate (IN)
3) Reallocation of the typology if Urban Centres (> 200K Rural  Intermediate, > 500K Intermediate  Urban)
4) Predominantly Rural (PR) are further classified
Predominantly Rural Close to a city (PRC)
Predominantly Rural Remote (PRR)
Driving time of at least 50% of regional population to the closest locality with more than inhabitants. (<> 60 minutes)

4. OECD Revised Regional typology (work in process)
Predominantly Urban (PU), Intermediate (IN), Predominantly Rural (PR) at TL3 level
based on population density grid at 1km2, using the last 2011 census data and LandScan world population database.
urban clusters are contiguous cells (including diagonals) with for EU countries a density threshold (300 hab./km2 for EU) and minimum of population (5000 for EU)
3) share of rural population >=50% rural ; < 20%: urban ; other intermediate
For EU countries, typology will be collected from Eurostat when data based on 2011 census are available
Computation some countries where TL3 are not equal to NUST3 (e.g. Germany,TL3 are 96 spatial planning regions)
- For non-EU countries, a first version proposed and discussed by the end of the month
-> 1st Objective: have a revised typology in the next edition of the publication
Region at a Glance (release in June 2016). Draft started.
-> 2nd Objective (to be confirmed): have an extended typology for Rural (remote / close to a city)

5. OECD Current Regional typology distribution
Population
Surface
25% OECD34 Population
is rural in 2014
and 83% OECD34 surface is rural

6. OECD Current Regional typology distribution
GDP
14% OECD25 GDP produced by rural in 2014
(17% population)

7. GDP per capita of richest and poorest regions (preliminary results)
richest/poorest evolution
GDP per capita richest/poorest
by typology

8. Employment growth rate average annual 2000-2014
Employment growth - regional disparity
Employment growth - typology

9. Elderly population growth rate – country values average annual 2000-2014

10. Elderly population growth rate – regional disparity average annual 2000-2014

11. Thank you for your attention eric.gonnard@oecd.org