{"id":22447,"date":"2017-07-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuovowww.collaudo.istat.it\/non-categorizzato\/poverty-in-italy-year-2016\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T21:46:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T19:46:28","slug":"poverty-in-italy-year-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/press-release\/poverty-in-italy-year-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absolute poverty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the incidence of absolute poverty was 6.3% in terms of residing households (1 million and 619 thousands households, that is 4 million 742 people) and 7.9% in terms of individuals. In 2015 the former was equal to 6.1%, the latter was 7.6%. The incidence of absolute poverty at the household level was broadly stable compared to 2015, despite its increase among households with at least one non-national member in the North area (from 13.9% in 2015 to 22.9%), and among households with 3 or more minor children (from 18.3% to 26.8%). In 2016 the incidence of poverty among individuals was higher in the South area (9,3%); it counted over 2 million people.The share of poor households among those with all non-national members compared to households with national members only, was almost six times higher (25.7% vs. 4.4%).<\/p>\n<p>Households residing in small municipalities (less than 50,000 inhabitant) of the<br \/>\nCentre area showed worsening signals (from 3.3% in 2015 to 6.4%) as well as households with all national members in the same area (from 2.4% in 2015 to 3.5%).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relative poverty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the proportion of poor households in relative terms remained stable (10.6%, it was 10.4% in 2015), whereas the relative poverty intensity increased (from 23.1% to 24.3%), especially in the North and Centre areas (respectively from 19.9 % to 24.7% and from 18.8% to 23.7%). Households in relative poverty were 2 million and 734 thousands and in terms of individuals were 8 million 465 thousands (equal to 14.0%).<\/p>\n<p>The relative poverty incidence was higher among households with 4 components or 5 components (respectively 17.1% and 30.9%) and among households with reference person age under 35 (14.6%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolute poverty In 2016, the incidence of absolute poverty was 6.3% in terms of residing households (1 million and 619 thousands households, that is 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4082],"tags":[3186,3387,3158,3348,3210,3324,3524,2969],"regione":[],"tema":[4059],"class_list":["post-22447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-consumptions","tag-expenditure","tag-hardship","tag-income","tag-inequality","tag-poverty","tag-relative-and-absolute-poverty","tag-report","tema-households-economic-conditions"],"meta_fields":{"data_pubblicazione":"20170713","descrizioneperiodo":"Year 2016","titolobreve":"Poverty in Italy","news":"In 2016 the absolute poverty was equal to 6.3%, whereas the relative poverty to 10.6%","news_rss":"In 2016, the incidence of absolute poverty was 6.3% in terms of residing households (1 million and 619 thousands households, that is 4 million 742 people) and 7.9% in terms of individuals. 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