European ranking
10 / 30
Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
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
Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.
Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate
Granularity: Regions
Sicilia
38.40
Campania
35.60
Calabria
32.80
Puglia
27.60
Sardegna
26.10
Basilicata
21.90
Abruzzo
20.00
Lazio
17.90
Molise
17.50
Liguria
17.10
Piemonte
14.00
Toscana
12.80
Veneto
12.40
Marche
12.00
Umbria
11.30
Lombardia
9.20
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
9.10
Provincia Autonoma di Trento
8.80
Emilia-Romagna
6.70
Valle dAosta / Vallée dAoste
5.00
Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano / Bozen
4.60
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.