NUTS-3 ITG17 · Italy
Catania
Export region data (CSV)Catania generates €24bn of GDP across 1.1m residents. Its Opportunity Index of 46.4/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and economic growth. Its economy has grown +4.0%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 7.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (58.5th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (2th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
46.4
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth54.8
Livability20.9
Market access25
Economic scale85
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)
42
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability60
Labour stability16
Diversification50
Demographic stability42
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)
36
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density1
Airport access82
Market access25
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)
7
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary6
Lifelong learning16
Knowledge workers5
Scientists & engineers1
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)
20.9
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy23.5
Jobs2.5
Education13
Health58.5
Safety41.7
Connectivity5
Environment2
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
54.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.0%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.4%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.6 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.3 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.1%
CAGR
Employment rate
+7.0 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-5.9 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. · 27.2%Diversified · HHI 2253
Agriculture 3.8%Industry 10.7%Construction 6.5%Trade · transport · ICT 25.6%Finance · real estate · prof. 27.2%Public · health · education 26.3%
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)
€22,005M
2023 · EU pctl 85
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€834M
2023 · EU pctl 95
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,357M
2023 · EU pctl 64
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€1,889M
2023 · EU pctl 64
GVA — construction (F)
€1,429M
2023 · EU pctl 88
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€5,623M
2023 · EU pctl 88
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€16,800
2024 · EU pctl 29 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
23,700 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 18
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€22,800
2023 · EU pctl 24
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€24,161M
2023 · EU pctl 72 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€2,214M
2023 · EU pctl 48 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€40,753M
2023 · EU pctl 59 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€3,256M
2023 · EU pctl 84
GVA — information & communication (J)
€510M
2023 · EU pctl 75
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€5,975M
2023 · EU pctl 86
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€5,786M
2023 · EU pctl 89
Labour market
Employment, total persons
361,200
2023 · EU pctl 89
Self-employed persons
89,800
2023 · EU pctl 96
Employment in manufacturing (C)
28,200
2023 · EU pctl 69
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
54.1%
2025 · EU pctl 1 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
33.8%
2025 · EU pctl 97 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
68,454
2023 · EU pctl 91
Enterprise births
6,184
2023 · EU pctl 89
Enterprise deaths
4,007
2023 · EU pctl 84
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.8%
2023 · EU pctl 60
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
6
2012 · EU pctl 29
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
6 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 14
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.0%
2023 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
2.6%
2025 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
16.9%
2025 · EU pctl 2 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
24.0%
2025 · EU pctl 6 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
7.2%
2025 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
15.8%
2025 · EU pctl 5 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
3.9%
2025 · EU pctl 1 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
90.9%
2025 · EU pctl 9 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
3,245,943
2025 · EU pctl 79
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
733 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 96 · 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.
3
CURRENT · EU pctl 4
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
0
CURRENT · EU pctl 1
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
23
CURRENT · EU pctl 18
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)
683,238
2025 · EU pctl 94
Population aged 65+
240,101
2025 · EU pctl 95
Population aged under 15
146,830
2025 · EU pctl 94
Median age of population
46.3 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 51
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
35.1%
2025 · EU pctl 40
Crude rate of total population change
-1.5 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 34
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
0.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 19
Crude birth rate
7.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 45
Crude death rate
10.0 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 22
Live births
8,107
2024 · EU pctl 94
Deaths
10,725
2024 · EU pctl 95
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
56.6%
2025 · EU pctl 31
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.32
2024 · EU pctl 37
Population density (persons per km²)
301 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 74
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
44.0%
2025 · EU pctl 99 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.6 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 69 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
281 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 15 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,031 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 52 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
209 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 21 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.3 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 25
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
39.9 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 75
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,859 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 89
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
50 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
83 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 23
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
103 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 100
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
1 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 2
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 55
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.
27
2024 · EU pctl 98
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
65
2024 · EU pctl 88
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