NUTS-3 ITI44 · Italy
Population
566,6982025
GDP
€15,590M2023
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
5.5%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
69.3%2025
Active firms· FR-only
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Cadastral parcels· FR-only
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Area
2,268.1 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
ITI44 · ES130
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Cantabria (Opportunity 55). Runner-up: Latina (53). Contrarian pick: Latina — leads the set on Demographic outlook (EU pctl 79).
#2Latina
Strengths
Demographic outlook (79) · Digital readiness (68)
Red flags
Labour market (EU bottom 15%)
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Long-run slide: down 22 EU ranks in real GDP per head since 1995 (relative decline, not absolute)
Why you might not pick Cantabria
Its weakest dimension is Connectivity (EU pctl 18) — Latina may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
The leader depends on the mandate: Logistics → Cantabria · Manufacturing → Cantabria · Office → Cantabria · Residential → Latina.
Phase-2 diligence checklist
- Site-level grid connection capacity and power pricing (beyond country-grain energy data)
- Local incentives, tax regimes and permitting timelines
- Workforce depth for your specific roles (the talent pillar is a proxy)
- Real-estate availability, rents and land — public pan-EU data stops at the Nordics
This is a mandate-neutral read. To weight the pillars to your thesis, run these regions through the Site Screener — it ranks all 1,211 regions under your weights and exports the full PDF. First-pass macro screening, not investment advice.
Composite intelligence · 0–100 EU-percentile scores
Opportunity Indexscale + growth + access + structure
53.0
54.6
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
64.5
47.3
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
39.0
55.7
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
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56.0
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
46.3
17.7
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
40.5
68.5
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
49.0
63.8
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
2.0% 5y
3.8% 5y
Population
0.1% 5y
0.4% 5y
Unemployment rate
12.5% 5y
9.6% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€27,510
€28,201
Population density
250 /km²
111 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€14,005M
€15,257M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€644M
€256M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,703M
€3,306M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,288M
€2,718M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,043M
€1,001M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€3,031M
€3,594M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€22,800
€18,300
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
28,500 PPS
31,900 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€27,500
€28,400
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€50,148M
€3,560M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€4,606M
€736M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€95,178M
€7,994M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€2,227M
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GVA — information & communication (J)
€191M
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GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€3,664M
€3,706M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,921M
€3,392M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€14,168M
€15,639M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€72,831
€75,208
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€3,289M
€4,038M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
218,800
237,900
Self-employed persons
53,300
38,000
Employment in manufacturing (C)
25,800
31,400
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
68.0%
73.8%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
21.3%
19.8%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
5.5%
7.3%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
255,800
286,700
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
39,490
40,384
Enterprise births
3,356
3,014
Enterprise deaths
2,234
2,707
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.8%
4.0%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.8%
1.0%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
7.9%
3.3%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
1.7%
0.9%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
28.5%
47.8%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
37.4%
59.8%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
10.6%
15.8%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
23.0%
25.5%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
6.3%
7.6%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
96.3%
96.6%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,404,462
6,117,130
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
701 /1k
570 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
6,771 kt
24,662 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,506
96
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
29 km/1000km²
48 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
266
16
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
51
111
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
364,984
380,589
Population aged 65+
131,882
145,544
Population aged under 15
69,832
67,490
Median age of population
48.0 yrs
48.9 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
36.1%
38.2%
Crude rate of total population change
-0.3 /1k
4.7 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
4.0 /1k
9.9 /1k
Crude birth rate
6.1 /1k
5.1 /1k
Crude death rate
10.4 /1k
10.3 /1k
Live births
3,452
3,013
Deaths
5,867
6,105
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
55.3%
56.0%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.13
0.99
Population density (persons per km²)
255 /km²
112 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
513,685
397,244
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
20.7%
19.2%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
83.6 yrs
84.0 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
17.9%
13.9%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
350 /100k
307 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
907 /100k
772 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
226 /100k
216 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.9 /100k
0.5 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
32.3 /100k
41.5 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
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322 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,174 /100k
196 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
56 /M
32 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.72
1.14
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.60
0.84
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.57
0.96
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.57
0.78
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.41
0.16
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.159/kWh
€0.106/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.048/kWh
€0.048/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
4 m
932 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
47 days/yr
2 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
40 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
14 days/yr
13 days/yr