NUTS-3 ITH58 · Italy
Forlì-Cesena
Export region data (CSV)Forlì-Cesena generates €16bn of GDP across 393.4k residents. Its Opportunity Index of 54.6/100 is mid-table of EU regions, led by economic scale and livability. Its economy has grown +3.7%/yr over five years and accelerating, with the employment rate up 3.2pp. On quality of life it ranks strongest for health (88th EU percentile) and weakest for clean environment (28th).
Opportunity Index · composite triage (experimental)
54.6
/ 100 · blends growth, livability, market access & scale · 4/4 pillars
Growth43.4
Livability50.9
Market access49
Economic scale75
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)
58
/ 100 · higher = more resilient to downturns · 4/4 pillars
GDP stability70
Labour stability52
Diversification71
Demographic stability39
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)
38.3
/ 100 · higher = better-connected · 3/3 facets
Transit density7
Airport access59
Market access49
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)
34.3
/ 100 · higher = deeper skills base than more EU regions · 4/4 facets
Young tertiary36
Lifelong learning65
Knowledge workers24
Scientists & engineers12
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)
50.9
/ 100 · EU-relative · 7/7 pillars
Economy65.5
Jobs46.5
Education42
Health88
Safety51
Connectivity35.5
Environment28
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
43.4
/ 100 momentum · EU-relative · 5/5 signals
GDP growth · 5-yr
+3.7%
CAGR, nominal
GDP growth · 10-yr
+2.9%
CAGR, nominal
Acceleration
+0.8 pp
5-yr vs 10-yr
vs country avg
+0.1 pp
inflation-adj.
Population · 5-yr
-0.1%
CAGR
Employment rate
+3.2 pp
5-yr change
Unemployment
-1.7 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. · 26.5%Diversified · HHI 2131
Agriculture 4%Industry 24.9%Construction 6.4%Trade · transport · ICT 22.3%Finance · real estate · prof. 26.5%Public · health · education 15.8%
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)
€14,023M
2023 · EU pctl 75
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€567M
2023 · EU pctl 90
GVA — industry (B–E)
€3,497M
2023 · EU pctl 78
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€3,078M
2023 · EU pctl 81
GVA — construction (F)
€893M
2023 · EU pctl 77
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€3,133M
2023 · EU pctl 77
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€25,400
2024 · EU pctl 55 · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
41,300 PPS
2023 · EU pctl 76
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€39,800
2023 · EU pctl 64
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€45,497M
2023 · EU pctl 91 · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€12,104M
2023 · EU pctl 95 · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€74,553M
2023 · EU pctl 83 · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€2,016M
2023 · EU pctl 75
GVA — information & communication (J)
€207M
2023 · EU pctl 57
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€3,722M
2023 · EU pctl 79
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€2,210M
2023 · EU pctl 65
Labour market
Employment, total persons
192,100
2023 · EU pctl 71
Self-employed persons
45,200
2023 · EU pctl 84
Employment in manufacturing (C)
37,700
2023 · EU pctl 79
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
74.5%
2025 · EU pctl 30 · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
17.4%
2025 · EU pctl 61 · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
33,277
2023 · EU pctl 75
Enterprise births
2,117
2023 · EU pctl 64
Enterprise deaths
1,891
2023 · EU pctl 67
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.7%
2023 · EU pctl 27
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
16
2012 · EU pctl 48
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
40 /M pop
2012 · EU pctl 35
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.1%
2023 · EU pctl 68 · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
3.8%
2025 · EU pctl 40 · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
25.3%
2025 · EU pctl 16 · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
36.2%
2025 · EU pctl 36 · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
13.1%
2025 · EU pctl 65 · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
19.2%
2025 · EU pctl 24 · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
5.3%
2025 · EU pctl 12 · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
96.2%
2025 · EU pctl 64 · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
5,803,947
2025 · EU pctl 89
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
691 /1k pop
2024 · EU pctl 91 · 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.
8
CURRENT · EU pctl 8
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
2
CURRENT · EU pctl 7
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
46
CURRENT · EU pctl 41
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)
246,581
2025 · EU pctl 69
Population aged 65+
100,393
2025 · EU pctl 74
Population aged under 15
46,393
2025 · EU pctl 63
Median age of population
49.6 yrs
2025 · EU pctl 82
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
40.7%
2025 · EU pctl 71
Crude rate of total population change
1.4 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 54
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
6.6 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 67
Crude birth rate
5.9 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 13
Crude death rate
11.2 /1k
2024 · EU pctl 43
Live births
2,335
2024 · EU pctl 60
Deaths
4,383
2024 · EU pctl 69
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
59.5%
2025 · EU pctl 52
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.17
2024 · EU pctl 17
Population density (persons per km²)
165 /km²
2024 · EU pctl 59
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
8.2%
2025 · EU pctl 1 · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
84.3 yrs
2024 · EU pctl 94 · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
358 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 38 · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
860 /100k
2021 · EU pctl 18 · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
212 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 27 · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.0 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 0
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
35.5 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 72
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,124 /100k
2023 · EU pctl 68
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
61 /M pop
2024 · EU pctl 79 · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
363 m
CURRENT · EU pctl 68
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
35 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 86
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
30 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 21
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
10 days/yr
CLIM_2014_2023 · EU pctl 84
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.
16
2024 · EU pctl 72
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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