EU 20.40
· European ranking
9 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Italy: Poverty & Social Exclusion Risk
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
22.60% of people
EU 20.40 · +2.2 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people experiencing at least one of three conditions: risk of poverty after social transfers, severe material and social deprivation, or living in a household with very low work intensity. People meeting more than one condition are counted only once.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion ILC_PEPS11N
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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+100.44
45.30
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2+94.69
44.00
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3+82.30
41.20
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4+54.87
35.00
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5+31.42
29.70
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6+11.06
25.10
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7+9.29
24.70
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8+0.88
22.80
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9-8.41
20.70
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10-12.83
19.70
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11-19.91
18.10
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12-25.22
16.90
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13-35.40
14.60
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14-38.50
13.90
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15-40.27
13.50
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16-44.69
12.50
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17-48.67
11.60
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18-52.21
10.80
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19-63.72
8.20
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20-69.03
7.00
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21-75.22
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.