According to preliminary estimates, in 2021, the incidence of absolute poverty was 7.5% among households (from 7.7% in 2020) and 9.4% among individuals (same value as the previous year): more than 1.95 million households, for a total number of about 5.6 million individuals.<\/p>\n
The year 2021 was still marked by the pandemic, but with a strong economic recovery (+6.6% the GDP). Household consumption expenditure, according to the results of the Household Budget Survey, increased (+4.7% in current terms compared to the previous year), without compensating the decline of 2020 and still showing a decrease of 4.7% compared to 2019. <\/p>\n
Despite the relevant increase in household consumption expenditure, poverty was therefore broadly stable compared to 2020, due, partly, to a more moderate increase in the expenditure of the poorest households and partly to the recovery of inflation (+1.9% in 2021), net of which the incidence of absolute poverty would have decreased to 7.0% for households and to 8.8% for individuals. In order to better understand the context, it worths to remind the differentiated effects of consumer price growth: in 2021, the HICP Harmonised Index was in fact +2.4% for the poorest households and +1.6% for the wealthiest.<\/p>\n
The intensity of absolute poverty, that is the average distance of poor household consumption expenditure from the poverty line, also remained substantially stable compared to the previous year (18.7%), except in the Centre where it reached 17.3% from 16.1% in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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