The data Istat on the risk of poverty and social exclusion In Italy they reveal significant differences between one region and another. The most clear separation is that between North and Center on the one hand and south and islands on the other, with some exceptions of territories that are positioned outside the average of their geographical area.
In reality, the south seems to be further divided into it, with four regions, Calabria, Campania, Puglia and Sicily, where the conditions of poverty of families They are even more critical than the rest of the south.
Risk of poverty, Italy divided into three
The risk of poverty and social marginalization is a metric that calculates how much a family is in danger of being excluded from society due to the lack of economic means. It combines three data:
- the risk of poverty, given mainly by income;
- the serious material deprivations, given by the not to be able to allow non -essential expenses but which guarantee a dignified life;
- The low working intensity, given by the number of members of a family who work and the nature of their use.
The data Istat They highlight that our country, for this metric, is roughly divided into Three geographical areas:
- 11 regions, between the north and the center, are low risk, with a lower rate than the national average of 23.1%;
- 5 regions, located between the center and the South, slightly exceed the national average but remain below 30%;
- 4 regions have very high critical issues, with close rates or much higher than 40%.
The ranking of the regions most at risk
The 4 regions with the greater risk of poverty and social marginalization, based on the data collected in 2024, are:
- Calabria, where 48.8% of families are at risk;
- Campania, where 43.5% of families are at risk;
- Sicily, where 40.9% of families are at risk;
- Puglia, where 37.5% of families are at risk.
Each region has a particularity. There Calabria It has almost a quarter of its population (24.9%) in serious conditions of material and social deprivation, more than double compared to any other Italian region, which adds to the highest risk of poverty in Italy. There Campania Instead, it holds the record for low working intensity nuclei, 24.4%.
The only other region of this group capable of approaching the Campania data at work is the Sicilywith 17.3%. There Puglia Instead it stands out for a sudden increase in the risk of poverty, which passed in a year from 24.5% to 30.9%. A worsening that made her abandon the group of medium risk regions.
Regarding the areas that gravitate around the national averagethese are regions of the center and south that do not reach 30% of families at risk. These are:
- Sardinia, 29.6%;
- Molise, 27.5%;
- Lazio, 25.8%;
- Basilicata, 25.4%;
- Abruzzo, 25.1%.
Among these, the Sardinia It stands out for a very high percentage of low -intensity families, 19.5% against a national average of 9.2%. Abruzzo, on the other hand, is the one with the most families in serious conditions of deprivation of the group, 9.1%.
The regions with less poor families
The remaining 11 regions are very distant, for data, from other groups. Not only do they have a percentage of families at risk lower than the national average, but almost none of them reach 15%, with the exception of Tuscany, which exceeds this figure of only 0.2 percentage points.
The ranking of the regions with less poor families read:
- Trentino-Alto Adige, 8.8%;
- Emilia-Romagna, 10.1%;
- Valle d’Aosta, 10.7%;
- Marche, 11.8%;
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 12.4%;
- Veneto, 12.4%;
- Piedmont, 13.5%;
- Liguria, 13.8%;
- Umbria, 14%;
- Lombardy, 14.1%;
- Tuscany, 15.2%.
The region with the highest risk of poverty in this group is the Tuscany, At 12.8%, the one with more families in a state of serious deprivation is the Piedmont At 2.8% and the one with more low -intensity families is theUmbria, 5.1%.
