In order to be comprehensive, any study of the situation of the Autonomous Communities requires the elaboration of a series of indicators, which allow us to know the present socio-economic reality of each territory, as well as to monitor its evolution during the last decades.

To portray the economic reality of the Communities, use is made of both economic and growth indicators, which show the possibilities and difficulties that the Autonomous Communities currently have to progress in an increasingly changing external environment, to which they have to adapt continuously and without delay. They are indicators prepared with the latest available statistical data offered by Spanish and Community public bodies.

In a broad sense, the concept of public capital includes institutional, technical and social infrastructures. It therefore includes those corresponding to the General Administration, Defense, Citizen Security, Justice, Transport Networks, Hydraulic Resources, Education, Health and Culture, among other spending policies. But in addition to the physical endowments and equipment, generated through public investment (chapter 6 of the General State Budgets), spending policies include other personal and material resources collected in different budget chapters that are not analyzed here.

The study of the financial economic profile of the Autonomous Communities introduces us to a qualitatively different field, starting from the evolution, during the last years, of the GDP of the CC.AA. and the situation of their labour market, observing the differences in their behaviour and their causes. From here, the analysis of productivity and productive structure plays a special role, since productivity, together with the employment rate, is a direct determinant of per capita GDP. Productivity is closely related to the accumulation of two intangible assets, human capital and technological capital. The different endowments of this type of assets between the different Autonomous Communities help to explain the differences in productivity between them. Por ello, se incluyen referencias a indicadores de capital humano, indicadores de de I+D o indicadores de redes de transporte. To carry out this type of analysis, demographic aspects are not forgotten, and, in particular, the impact that immigration flows have had on the autonomous economies.

The possibilities of increasing the productive capacity of the Autonomous Communities and overcoming the obstacles that hinder their full development are closely related to the policies studied in the economic analysis. The territorial policy, developed both by the General Administration of the State and by the European Union, both in collaboration with the CC.AA., aims to positively influence the growth of the less developed, focusing on the accumulation of endowments of productive factors, especially technological capital, human capital and infrastructures, without forgetting the creation of companies and the generation of business initiatives.