In 2020, just over two million households lived in absolute poverty with an incidence of 7.7% (from 6.4% in 2019), for a total number of over 5.6 million individuals (9.4% of the total to 7.7% in 2019).<\/p>\n
After the improvement of 2019, in the year of the pandemic, absolute poverty has increased reaching the highest level since 2005 (first year of the time series).<\/p>\n
The number of households in conditions of relative poverty below the threshold was just over 2.6 million (10.1% of the total, 11.4% in 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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