NUTS-3 ITC46 · Italy
Bergamo
Export region data (CSV)Bergamo generates €47bn of GDP across 1.1m residents. Its Opportunity Index of 67.9/100 puts it in the upper quartile of EU regions, led by economic scale and market access. Its economy has grown +4.1%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 3.3pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (92.5th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (8th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
67.9
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth51
Livability48.4
Market access78
Economic scale94
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)
46.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability52
Labour stability48
Diversification33
Demographic stability52
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)
61
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density9
Airport access96
Market access78
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)
29.5
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary27
Lifelong learning62
Knowledge workers19
Scientists & engineers10
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)
48.4
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy71.5
Jobs57
Education23
Health92.5
Safety53.3
Connectivity33.5
Environment8
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
51
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.1%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+3.2%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.9 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.5 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.1%
CAGR
Employment rate
+3.3 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-2.1 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 · 32.8%Diversified · HHI 2364
Agriculture 1.3%Industry 32.8%Construction 8.4%Trade · transport · ICT 18.5%Finance · real estate · prof. 27.1%Public · health · education 11.9%
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 · 70 more metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€41,795M
2023 · EU pctl 94
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€551M
2023 · EU pctl 89
GVA — industry (B–E)
€13,698M
2023 · EU pctl 98
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€12,990M
2023 · EU pctl 98
GVA — construction (F)
€3,523M
2023 · EU pctl 97
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€7,724M
2023 · EU pctl 92
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€26,600
2024 · EU pctl 63 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
43,600 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 80
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€42,000
2023 · EU pctl 69
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€101,220M
2023 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€19,922M
2023 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€188,904M
2023 · EU pctl 98 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€5,040M
2023 · EU pctl 92
GVA — information & communication (J)
€677M
2023 · EU pctl 80
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€11,320M
2023 · EU pctl 94
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€4,979M
2023 · EU pctl 86
Labour market
Employment, total persons
510,400
2023 · EU pctl 94
Self-employed persons
105,700
2023 · EU pctl 97
Employment in manufacturing (C)
140,000
2023 · EU pctl 99
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
71.7%
2025 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
10.9%
2025 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
88,074
2023 · EU pctl 94
Enterprise births
5,957
2023 · EU pctl 88
Enterprise deaths
5,027
2023 · EU pctl 88
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.5%
2023 · EU pctl 21
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
127
2012 · EU pctl 93
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
117 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 57
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.2%
2023 · EU pctl 34 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
5.3%
2025 · EU pctl 70 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
23.6%
2025 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
34.0%
2025 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
11.8%
2025 · EU pctl 62 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
18.7%
2025 · EU pctl 19 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
5.2%
2025 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
96.0%
2025 · EU pctl 58 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
3,357,488
2025 · EU pctl 80
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
640 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 74 · 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.
31
CURRENT · EU pctl 16
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 9
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
10
CURRENT · EU pctl 4
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
4
CURRENT · EU pctl 90
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
718,303
2025 · EU pctl 95
Population aged 65+
255,221
2025 · EU pctl 96
Population aged under 15
141,256
2025 · EU pctl 94
Median age of population
47.7 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 65
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.5%
2025 · EU pctl 42
Crude rate of total population change
3.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 71
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 70
Crude birth rate
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Crude death rate
9.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 17
Live births
7,367
2024 · EU pctl 93
Deaths
10,688
2024 · EU pctl 95
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
55.2%
2025 · EU pctl 22
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.24
2024 · EU pctl 25
Population density (persons per km²)
411 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 80
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
12.5%
2025 · EU pctl 6 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
84.4 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 95 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
325 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 26 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
835 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 10 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
222 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 39 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.5 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 41
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
42.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 77
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,072 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 66
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
38 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 33 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
445 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 77
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
7 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 47
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
69 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 62
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
22 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 97
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.
22
2024 · EU pctl 92
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
53
2024 · EU pctl 44
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