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Italy: At-risk-of-poverty rate

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Italy Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Italy

Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Latest value

18.60 Percent of people

European ranking

10 / 30

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+3.3 puntos

Italy is 3.3 points above the European average.

EU: 15.32

Affected population

≈ 10.96 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 18.60 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 16.23 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Sicilia

    +106.50

    38.40

  2. 2

    Campania

    +91.40

    35.60

  3. 3

    Calabria

    +76.30

    32.80

  4. 4

    Puglia

    +48.40

    27.60

  5. 5

    Sardegna

    +40.30

    26.10

  6. 6

    Basilicata

    +17.70

    21.90

  7. 7

    Abruzzo

    +7.50

    20.00

  8. 8

    Lazio

    -3.80

    17.90

  9. 9

    Molise

    -5.90

    17.50

  10. 10

    Liguria

    -8.10

    17.10

  11. 11

    Piemonte

    -24.70

    14.00

  12. 12

    Toscana

    -31.20

    12.80

  13. 13

    Veneto

    -33.30

    12.40

  14. 14

    Marche

    -35.50

    12.00

  15. 15

    Umbria

    -39.20

    11.30

  16. 16

    Lombardia

    -50.50

    9.20

  17. 17

    Friuli-Venezia Giulia

    -51.10

    9.10

  18. 18

    Provincia Autonoma di Trento

    -52.70

    8.80

  19. 19

    Emilia-Romagna

    -64.00

    6.70

  20. 20

    Valle dAosta / Vallée dAoste

    -73.10

    5.00

  21. 21

    Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano / Bozen

    -75.30

    4.60

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Italy performs less favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Italy

In Italy, Poverty risk is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 18.6% versus 16.2% in 2025, with a gap of 2.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Italy, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 20.00% in 2020 to 18.60% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 18.90% in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.

Regional differences in Italy

In Italy, regional differences in Poverty risk are pronounced. Across 21 comparable regions, Sicilia records the highest value (38.4%) and Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano / Bozen the lowest (4.6%), a gap of 33.8 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Italy, Poverty & Financial Vulnerability shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.