{"id":23316,"date":"2018-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuovowww.collaudo.istat.it\/non-categorizzato\/poverty-in-italy-year-2017\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T21:50:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T19:50:04","slug":"poverty-in-italy-year-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/press-release\/poverty-in-italy-year-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absolute poverty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 terms of individuals (5 million and 58 thousand households). <\/p>\n<p>In 2016 the former was 6.3% and the latter 7.9%. The incidence of absolute poverty at the household level increased with respect to 2016; it particularly increased among households in the South and Islands area (from 8.5% in 2016 to 10.3%), and among households with one minor child (from 7.2% to 9.5%). In 2017 the incidence of poverty among individuals increased with respect to 2016 with higher values in the South and Islands area (11.4%, 2 million and 359 thousand persons).<\/p>\n<p>The share of poor households exclusively composed by non-nationals was almost six times higher than that of poor households composed by nationals only (29.2% vs. 5.1%).<\/p>\n<p>Households residing in metropolitan municipalities of the South and Islands area showed worsening signals (incidence of absolute poverty from 5.8% in 2016 to 10,1% in 2017).<\/p>\n<p>The professional condition is a crucial determinant of the absolute poverty incidence that decreases in the households where the reference person is employed (from 6.4% in 2016 to 6.1%) and increases in the households where the reference person is not employed (from 6.1% to 7.7%). Nevertheless, in the households where the reference person is a worker, the incidence of absolute poverty (11.8%) is more than double than in the households where the reference person is retired (4.2%).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relative poverty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the percentage of poor households in relative terms increased with respect to 2016 (12.3% in 2017 from 10.6% in 2016), the same for poor individuals (15.6% in 2017 from 14.0% in 2016). Households in relative poverty were 3 million and 171 thousand, individuals were 9 million and 368 thousand in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4082],"tags":[3186,3387,3158,3230,3348,3210,3324,3524,2969],"regione":[],"tema":[4059],"class_list":["post-23316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-consumptions","tag-expenditure","tag-hardship","tag-household","tag-income","tag-inequality","tag-poverty","tag-relative-and-absolute-poverty","tag-report","tema-households-economic-conditions"],"meta_fields":{"data_pubblicazione":"20180626","descrizioneperiodo":"Year 2017","titolobreve":"Poverty in Italy","news":"In 2017 the absolute poverty was equal to 6.9%, whereas the relative poverty to 12.3%","news_rss":"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 terms of individuals (5 million and 58 thousand households).","sottotitolo":""},"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[],"tags-info":[{"id":3186,"label":"consumptions","slug":"consumptions"},{"id":3387,"label":"expenditure","slug":"expenditure"},{"id":3158,"label":"hardship","slug":"hardship"},{"id":3230,"label":"household","slug":"household"},{"id":3348,"label":"income","slug":"income"},{"id":3210,"label":"inequality","slug":"inequality"},{"id":3324,"label":"poverty","slug":"poverty"},{"id":3524,"label":"relative and absolute poverty","slug":"relative-and-absolute-poverty"},{"id":2969,"label":"statistics report","slug":"report"}],"categories-info":[{"id":4082,"label":"Press release","slug":"press-release"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23316"},{"taxonomy":"regione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regione?post=23316"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=23316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}