NUTS-3 ITC32 · Italy
Savona
Export region data (CSV)Savona generates €9.4bn of GDP across 267.1k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 49.6/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +3.8%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 6.8pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (83.5th EU percentile) and weakest for digital connectivity (24.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
49.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth48
Livability46.5
Market access48
Economic scale56
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)
44.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability51
Labour stability38
Diversification62
Demographic stability26
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)
39
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density16
Airport access53
Market access48
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)
21
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary9
Lifelong learning59
Knowledge workers13
Scientists & engineers3
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)
52
/ 100 · higher = cleaner air than more EU regions · 3/3 pollutants
PM2.59 µg/m³
PM1013.5 µg/m³
NO212 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)
46.5
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy54
Jobs33
Education28
Health83.5
Safety49.7
Connectivity24.5
Environment53
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
48
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.8%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.2%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.6 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.2 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.3%
CAGR
Employment rate
+6.8 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-3.5 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. · 28.7%Diversified · HHI 2177
Agriculture 1.5%Industry 19.2%Construction 7.7%Trade · transport · ICT 23%Finance · real estate · prof. 28.7%Public · health · education 19.9%
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)
€8,406M
2023 · EU pctl 56
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€127M
2023 · EU pctl 45
GVA — industry (B–E)
€1,613M
2023 · EU pctl 50
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,374M
2023 · EU pctl 53
GVA — construction (F)
€650M
2023 · EU pctl 65
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,930M
2023 · EU pctl 62
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€23,600
2024 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
36,300 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 63
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€35,000
2023 · EU pctl 50
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€12,797M
2023 · EU pctl 44 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€1,274M
2023 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€21,326M
2023 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,493M
2023 · EU pctl 67
GVA — information & communication (J)
€90M
2023 · EU pctl 40
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€2,413M
2023 · EU pctl 67
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,671M
2023 · EU pctl 54
Labour market
Employment, total persons
110,600
2023 · EU pctl 47
Self-employed persons
33,200
2023 · EU pctl 74
Employment in manufacturing (C)
10,600
2023 · EU pctl 31
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
72.2%
2025 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
20.6%
2025 · EU pctl 73 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
24,396
2023 · EU pctl 67
Enterprise births
1,577
2023 · EU pctl 56
Enterprise deaths
1,426
2023 · EU pctl 60
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.7%
2023 · EU pctl 28
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
14
2012 · EU pctl 45
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
48 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 38
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.4%
2023 · EU pctl 45 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.1%
2025 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
23.5%
2025 · EU pctl 11 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
28.0%
2025 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
11.4%
2025 · EU pctl 59 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
17.5%
2025 · EU pctl 13 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
4.3%
2025 · EU pctl 3 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
94.1%
2025 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
5,220,588
2025 · EU pctl 88
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
563 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 33 · 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.
26
CURRENT · EU pctl 15
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
10
CURRENT · EU pctl 16
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
51
CURRENT · EU pctl 47
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)
160,069
2025 · EU pctl 50
Population aged 65+
80,779
2025 · EU pctl 66
Population aged under 15
26,216
2025 · EU pctl 39
Median age of population
53.6 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 98
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
50.5%
2025 · EU pctl 95
Crude rate of total population change
-2.1 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 30
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
7.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 74
Crude birth rate
4.8 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 1
Crude death rate
14.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Live births
1,296
2024 · EU pctl 37
Deaths
3,843
2024 · EU pctl 62
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
66.8%
2025 · EU pctl 85
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.09
2024 · EU pctl 8
Population density (persons per km²)
173 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 60
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
19.7%
2025 · EU pctl 49 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
83.8 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 88 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
336 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
867 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
218 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 35 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.4 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 30
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
32.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 66
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,356 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 78
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
41 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 43 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
549 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 83
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
3 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 17
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
26 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 18
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
15 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 91
Environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14
2024 · EU pctl 36
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
12
2024 · EU pctl 47
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
60
2024 · EU pctl 77
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