NUTS-3 ITG18 · Italy
Ragusa
Export region data (CSV)Ragusa generates €7.1bn of GDP across 321.3k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 38.9/100 sits in the lower tier of EU regions, led by economic growth and economic scale. Its economy has grown +4.2%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 7.0pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for clean environment (78th EU percentile) and weakest for jobs (2.5th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
38.9
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth60.8
Livability30.8
Market access19
Economic scale45
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)
52.3
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability41
Labour stability16
Diversification86
Demographic stability66
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)
19
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density6
Airport access32
Market access19
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)
30.8
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy22.5
Jobs2.5
Education13
Health58.5
Safety33.3
Connectivity7.5
Environment78
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
60.8
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+4.2%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.5%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+1.8 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.6 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
+0.4%
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. · 24.6%Diversified · HHI 2019
Agriculture 9.3%Industry 9.6%Construction 8.1%Trade · transport · ICT 24.1%Finance · real estate · prof. 24.6%Public · health · education 24.3%
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)
€6,374M
2023 · EU pctl 45
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€595M
2023 · EU pctl 91
GVA — industry (B–E)
€611M
2023 · EU pctl 18
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€479M
2023 · EU pctl 20
GVA — construction (F)
€518M
2023 · EU pctl 56
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€1,534M
2023 · EU pctl 53
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)
23,100 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 16
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€22,300
2023 · EU pctl 23
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)
€933M
2023 · EU pctl 50
GVA — information & communication (J)
€101M
2023 · EU pctl 42
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€1,568M
2023 · EU pctl 52
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€1,548M
2023 · EU pctl 51
Labour market
Employment, total persons
120,200
2023 · EU pctl 51
Self-employed persons
30,400
2023 · EU pctl 71
Employment in manufacturing (C)
9,300
2023 · EU pctl 26
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)
21,511
2023 · EU pctl 63
Enterprise births
1,676
2023 · EU pctl 58
Enterprise deaths
1,195
2023 · EU pctl 54
3-year enterprise survival rate
4.6%
2023 · EU pctl 56
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
1
2012 · EU pctl 7
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
3 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 9
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)
1,417,268
2025 · EU pctl 60
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.
5
CURRENT · EU pctl 6
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 6
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
72
CURRENT · EU pctl 68
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)
207,704
2025 · EU pctl 63
Population aged 65+
70,072
2025 · EU pctl 58
Population aged under 15
43,524
2025 · EU pctl 60
Median age of population
45.5 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 43
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
33.7%
2025 · EU pctl 31
Crude rate of total population change
6.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 81
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
8.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 79
Crude birth rate
7.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 45
Crude death rate
9.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 17
Live births
2,441
2024 · EU pctl 62
Deaths
3,078
2024 · EU pctl 51
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
54.7%
2025 · EU pctl 20
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.35
2024 · EU pctl 41
Population density (persons per km²)
198 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 64
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
1.6 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 85
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
20.1 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 48
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
855 /100k
2024 · EU pctl 54
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
50 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
560 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 84
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
36 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 86
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 5
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
5 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 65
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.
8
2024 · EU pctl 22
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
74
2024 · EU pctl 97
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