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Italy: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

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

Country: Italy Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion Year: 2025

Country overview

Italy

Current reading for Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Latest value

22.60 Percent of people

European ranking

9 / 30

Compared with Europe

+2.6 puntos

Italy is 2.6 points above the European average.

EU: 20.04

Affected population

≈ 13.32 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 22.60 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Calabria

    +100.40

    45.30

  2. 2

    Sicilia

    +94.70

    44.00

  3. 3

    Campania

    +82.30

    41.20

  4. 4

    Puglia

    +54.90

    35.00

  5. 5

    Sardegna

    +31.40

    29.70

  6. 6

    Basilicata

    +11.10

    25.10

  7. 7

    Abruzzo

    +9.30

    24.70

  8. 8

    Molise

    +0.90

    22.80

  9. 9

    Lazio

    -8.40

    20.70

  10. 10

    Liguria

    -12.80

    19.70

  11. 11

    Toscana

    -19.90

    18.10

  12. 12

    Piemonte

    -25.20

    16.90

  13. 13

    Veneto

    -35.40

    14.60

  14. 14

    Marche

    -38.50

    13.90

  15. 15

    Umbria

    -40.30

    13.50

  16. 16

    Lombardia

    -44.70

    12.50

  17. 17

    Friuli-Venezia Giulia

    -48.70

    11.60

  18. 18

    Provincia Autonoma di Trento

    -52.20

    10.80

  19. 19

    Emilia-Romagna

    -63.70

    8.20

  20. 20

    Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano / Bozen

    -69.00

    7.00

  21. 21

    Valle dAosta / Vallée dAoste

    -75.20

    5.60

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Italy performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, 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 or exclusion is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 22.6% versus 20.4% in 2025, with a gap of 2.2 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Italy, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 24.90% in 2020 to 22.60% in 2025. The latest step, from 23.10% in 2024 to 22.60% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Italy

In Italy, regional differences in Poverty or exclusion are pronounced. Across 21 comparable regions, Calabria records the highest value (45.3%) and Valle dAosta / Vallée dAoste the lowest (5.6%), a gap of 39.7 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.