EU 16.23
· European ranking
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Up 1 positions compared with previous year
Italy: Poverty Rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
18.60% of people
EU 16.23 · +2.4 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people whose equivalised disposable income after social transfers is below 60% of the national median. It is a relative-income measure rather than a measure of absolute poverty.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat At-risk-of-poverty rate TESPM010
Explore this indicator
Regional map
· 2025 · 21 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+106.45
38.40
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2+91.40
35.60
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3+76.34
32.80
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4+48.39
27.60
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5+40.32
26.10
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6+17.74
21.90
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7+7.53
20.00
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8-3.76
17.90
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9-5.91
17.50
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10-8.06
17.10
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11-24.73
14.00
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12-31.18
12.80
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13-33.33
12.40
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14-35.48
12.00
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15-39.25
11.30
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16-50.54
9.20
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17-51.08
9.10
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18-52.69
8.80
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19-63.98
6.70
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20-73.12
5.00
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21-75.27
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.