Every day the Venetians produce 538 million euros of GDP. Padua is the locomotive of the Region, Vicenza has the leadership in productivity. And Rovigo? Last in both rankings.
The latest study by the CGIA of Mestre says so, according to which every day, Veneto produces 538 million euros of gross domestic product which, conventionally, is measured through the sum of final goods and services generated in a given period of time. These 538 million correspond to almost 111 euros of GDP per day for every Venetian citizen, including newborns and over centenarians. In Italy the average figure is 99 euros per capita.
In terms of GDP (or rather added value) the most virtuous province of Veneto is Padua which in 2024 can count on 35.6 billion euros of added value, 478 thousand work units, an annual labor productivity of 74,533 euros and a daily productivity of 203 euros and 60 cents. In terms of added value, Verona comes immediately after the province of Padua with 34.6 billion euros and Vicenza with 33.4 billion. Treviso follows at 32.3 billion while Venice reaches 28 billion and 100 million. At the bottom of the regional rankings, as usual, they are Belluno and Rovigo, but if the Dolomite capital manages to produce over 7 billion and 200 million euros of added value, this value in Polesine just reaches 6.7 billion.
If, however, we analyze labor productivity per unit of work per day, Vicenza leads the regional ranking with 230 euros. Followed by Treviso with 225 euros per work unit, then Belluno with 218 euros and Venice with 206 euros. Second to last (surprisingly?) Padua at 203 while in Rovigo it doesn’t even reach 200 euros per day: the productivity quota is calculated at 193 euros and 30 cents per work unit per day, a figure much lower than the average Venetian, which stands at 213 euros and 20 cents, while at the national one, 210 euros and 60 cents. Productivity in the province of Rovigo, therefore, is 9.3% lower than the regional average and 8.2% lower than the national one. A figure that puts Polesine in 59th place among the Italian provinces.
But the differences are also very evident on a regional basis: if in Trentino Alto Adige the GDP per inhabitant per day is equal to 146 euros, in Lombardy it is 131.8, in Valle d’Aosta 130.1, in Emila Romagna 118.9 and in Veneto 110.8. On the other hand, in Campania the GDP per capita per day is 63.4 euros, in Sicily 60.1 and in Calabria 57.9.
In terms of labor productivity, measured by comparing the value added to standard work units, in 2024 the average figure in Italy is equal to 77 thousand euros per work unit, or 211 euros on average per day. At a territorial level, the most virtuous situation is recorded in Trentino Alto Adige with 253 euros per day. This region of the North-East can count on a GDP (or rather added value) of 52.4 billion euros, 556 thousand standard work units and an annual productivity worth 92,595 euros. Lombardy follows with 251.4 euros per day, Valle d’Aosta with 230.8 euros and Emilia Romagna with 226.60 euros. Veneto ranks eighth with 213.20 euros. The situations where productivity is lower, however, can be seen in the South.
