In 1999,the gross domestic product (GDP) in the province of Treviso amounted to over 32,000 billion Lire, i.e. 18% of the regional GDP and 1.7% of Italy's GDP, so that Treviso ranks in the 14th place in the place-list of the 103 Italian provinces based on per capita produced income. The three main sectors of Treviso's economy are manufacturing activities, (accounting for almost 11,000 billion Lire of produced income, i.e. 34% of the total GDP in the province), services for the companies and the people (7,000 billion Lire, representing 22%), commercial and business activities (5,600 billion Lire, representing 18%).

The analysis of the macroeconomic sectors highlights Treviso's vocation for the industry with respect both to the Veneto region in general and, more significantly, to Italy: the global industrial sector (manufacturing, energy, building) in the "Marca" namely accounts for 40% of the GDP, against 34% in Veneto and 28% in Italy.

Nonetheless Treviso's economic structure has evolved over the last few years. Taking the Nineties as a starting point, the following changes can be observed: the considerable growth of sales related services (the so-called "advanced tertiary"), in terms of percentage with respect to the province's GDP, to the extent that the produced income share increases from 16% to 22%; the Civil Service dropping 12% to 8%, and commercial activities increasing from 15% to 18%.

Within this evolving context, also the constant presence of the manufacturing sector is worth mentioning, as it steadily covers one third of the province's GDP for the whole decade examined. As far as conjuncture trends are concerned, the latest performances have been highly gratifying for Treviso: in 1999, the global increase of produced income with respect to the previous year registered +3.6%, i.e. more than the increase rates in Veneto (+3.3%) and in Italy (+2.9); these differences are even clearer with specific reference to the industrial sector, which increased by +3.7% in the province of Treviso, in terms of GDP, against +2.4% in Veneto and +1.8% in Italy.