NUTS-3 ITC17 · Italy
Asti
Export region data (CSV)Asti generates €6.3bn of GDP across 207.2k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 44.8/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by market access and livability. Its economy has grown +2.3%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 5.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (81.5th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (21th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
44.8
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth35.4
Livability41.8
Market access62
Economic scale40
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)
44.8
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability48
Labour stability40
Diversification69
Demographic stability22
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)
45
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density29
Airport access44
Market access62
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)
18
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary10
Lifelong learning48
Knowledge workers6
Scientists & engineers8
Young tertiary attainment (25–34), adult lifelong learning, knowledge-worker share and scientists & engineers — each EU-percentile-ranked. Higher = deeper talent pool. Experimental.
Quality of Life · composite (experimental)
41.8
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy46
Jobs27
Education37.5
Health81.5
Safety50.3
Connectivity29
Environment21
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
35.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+2.3%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+1.7%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.6 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
-1.4 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.5%
CAGR
Employment rate
+5.0 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-1.5 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. · 29.3%Diversified · HHI 2140
Agriculture 3.3%Industry 22.8%Construction 7.2%Trade · transport · ICT 19.7%Finance · real estate · prof. 29.3%Public · health · education 17.7%
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)
€5,652M
2023 · EU pctl 40
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€189M
2023 · EU pctl 58
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,286M
2023 · EU pctl 41
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,165M
2023 · EU pctl 47
GVA — construction (F)
€408M
2023 · EU pctl 45
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,114M
2023 · EU pctl 39
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€24,400
2024 · EU pctl 49 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
31,400 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 43
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€30,300
2023 · EU pctl 38
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€44,851M
2023 · EU pctl 89 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€10,323M
2023 · EU pctl 93 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€61,911M
2023 · EU pctl 80 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€872M
2023 · EU pctl 48
GVA — information & communication (J)
€62M
2023 · EU pctl 33
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,655M
2023 · EU pctl 54
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,000M
2023 · EU pctl 33
Labour market
Employment, total persons
83,400
2023 · EU pctl 37
Self-employed persons
24,200
2023 · EU pctl 64
Employment in manufacturing (C)
15,300
2023 · EU pctl 45
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
73.5%
2025 · EU pctl 25 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
19.3%
2025 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
15,775
2023 · EU pctl 52
Enterprise births
1,066
2023 · EU pctl 46
Enterprise deaths
931
2023 · EU pctl 47
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.6%
2023 · EU pctl 23
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
11
2012 · EU pctl 42
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
53 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 39
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.1%
2023 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.6%
2025 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
21.2%
2025 · EU pctl 7 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
29.3%
2025 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
10.0%
2025 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
16.0%
2025 · EU pctl 6 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
5.0%
2025 · EU pctl 8 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
93.9%
2025 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
581,651
2025 · EU pctl 36
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
723 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 94 · 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.
241
CURRENT · EU pctl 27
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
116
CURRENT · EU pctl 29
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
60
CURRENT · EU pctl 56
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 75
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
126,921
2025 · EU pctl 41
Population aged 65+
57,390
2025 · EU pctl 48
Population aged under 15
22,892
2025 · EU pctl 33
Median age of population
51.2 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 91
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
45.2%
2025 · EU pctl 85
Crude rate of total population change
-0.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 44
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
7.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 70
Crude birth rate
5.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 13
Crude death rate
13.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 71
Live births
1,213
2024 · EU pctl 33
Deaths
2,695
2024 · EU pctl 45
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
63.3%
2025 · EU pctl 75
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.22
2024 · EU pctl 23
Population density (persons per km²)
138 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 52
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
16.9%
2025 · EU pctl 28 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.7 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 86 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
343 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
892 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 23 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
228 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.0 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
18.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 44
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
659 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 41
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
40 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 41 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
208 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 49
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
45 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 90
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
52 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 43
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
11 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 85
Environment
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
18
2024 · EU pctl 79
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 32
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