hardship
18 December 2025
Istat poverty statistics – Year 2022
In 2022, little more than 2,18 million of households (8.3% of the total from 7.7% in 2021) and over 5.6 million individuals (9.7% up from 9.1% the previous year) were in condition of absolute povertyReference period: Year 2022
17 December 2025
Istat poverty statistics – Year 2023
In 2023, just over 2.2 million households (8.4% of total resident households, stable compared to 2022) and almost 5.7 million individuals (9.7% of total resident individuals, same as in the previous year) are in absolute povertyReference period: Year 2023
17 December 2025
Istat poverty statistics – Year 2024
In 2024, over 2.2 million households in condition of absolute poverty – (8.4% of total resident households) and 5.7 million individuals (9.8% of total resident individuals) are in absolute povertyReference period: Year 2024
07 July 2022
Poverty in Italy
Higher consumption does not compensate for inflation. Absolute poverty keeps stable In 2021, a little more than 1.9 million households (7.5% of the total from […]Reference period: Year 2021
28 April 2022
Absolute poverty and consumption expenditure
Absolute poverty stable in 2021 According to preliminary estimates, in 2021, the incidence of absolute poverty was 7.5% among households (from 7.7% in 2020) and […]Reference period: Year 2021
01 July 2021
Poverty in Italy
Absolute poverty growing again In 2020, just over two million households lived in absolute poverty with an incidence of 7.7% (from 6.4% in 2019), for […]Reference period: Year 2020
31 July 2020
Poverty in Italy
Almost 1.7 million households lived in absolute poverty with an incidence of 6.4% in 2019 (7.0% in 2018), for a total number of about 4.6 […]Reference period: Year 2019
11 July 2019
Poverty in Italy
In 2018, over 1.8 million households in absolute poverty (with an incidence of 7.0%) were estimated, for a total of 5 million individuals (incidence of […]Reference period: Year 2018
26 June 2018
Poverty in Italy
Absolute poverty In 2017, the incidence of absolute poverty was 6.9% in terms of residing households (1 million and 778 thousand households) and 8.4% in […]Reference period: Year 2017
23 May 2018
Residential care facilities
In Italy, residential care facilities, active at 31st December 2015, were 12,828, with 390,689 beds (6.4 for every 1,000 residents). The majority of the residential […]Reference period: Year 2015