SOUND ECONOMY
The Emilia-Romagna region comprises 330 municipalities that are grouped into one Metropolitan City (Bologna) and 8 provinces (Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia and Rimini). The regional population has reached 4,438,937 residents (2021).
The economic system is increasingly focused on international markets and features: high rate of entrepreneurship, strong manufacturing sector, high level of innovation, wealth per capita higher than the Italian and European average.
| Total number of regional companies and employees | |
|---|---|
| N. of regional companies
407,468 |
N. of regional employees
1,017,717 |
Source Margò - CRIBIS 2020
Emilia-Romagna has a strong manufacturing sector, strongly export-oriented, with a GDP per capita much higher than the European and national average.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
| Import/Export Emilia-Romagna | |
|---|---|
| Export (billion euro)
84.1 |
Import (billion euro)
53.2 |
Source Istat - Coeweb 2022
| Variation import/export in Emilia-Romagna in the 2019-22 period | |
|---|---|
| Export (% variation )
+26.2% |
Import (% variation )
+44.5% |
Source Istat - Coeweb 2021
ATTRACTIVENESS
| Number of foreign companies in ER with turnover of at least one million euros |
|---|
| Source: Aida BdV, elab. ART-ER
1,365 |
OUTWARD INTERNATIONALIZATION
