Almost 29% of the italians, 17.5 of people, last year it was at risk of poverty or social exclusion. To the South, the percentage rises 46.4%, from 45.6% of the previous year, and the proportion is also increased at the Center: from 22.1% to 24%. The levels are higher than the national average in all the regions of southern italy, with higher values in the Sicily (55,4%), Apulia (47,8%) and Campania (46,1%). Only to the North has decreased, from 17.9% to 17.4%. Calculates theIstat, according to which are "still far away" the targets set by th e European Strategy 2020 according to which Italy in the next four years is expected to reduce at-risk individuals below the threshold of 12.8 million. Today, the population exposed is "top of 4 million 587mila unit with respect to the intended target". And it is further increased, from 38.8 to 39.9% of the share of individuals in households that claim not to be able to support a unexpected expenses of 800 euros. 14.9% (compared to 14.3 in 2014) has accumulated arrears: on mortgage,rent, bill or other debts (from 14.3% to 14.9%).
The people who live in families with five or more components are the ones most at risk of poverty or social exclusion: pass 43.7% 2015, from 40.2 percent in 2014, but rising to 48,3% (39,4%) in the case of couples with three or more children and reached 51.2% (42.8%) in families with three or more children. The report living Conditions and income also notes that the deterioration more pronounced, are observed for individuals in pairs with at least three children: the share of those who declare not to be able to meet unexpected expenses of 800 euros goes from 48,1% to 52.8% and that of those who have had arrears for mortgage, rent, utility bills or other debts from 21.7% to 30.4%, contributing to the increase of 3 percentage points of the synthetic indicator of the severe material deprivation.
Are considered to be exposed to the danger of falling into the trap of the economic problems, the people who live below the poverty threshold (9.508 euro per year for the families composed of one adult only), the ones that show at least four signs of discomfort in a range of nine (to be in arrears on payments, not being able to cope with unexpected expenses, to buy a phone,car, a washing machine or tv , not to heat house, a meal protein once every two days and go to the holiday for a week) and those living in households with low work intensity, that is, with components between 18 and 59 years of age, which in 2014 have worked less than a fifth of the time (excluding students between 18 and 24 years of age).
"in The richest 20% nearly 40% of the total revenues"– from poverty goes to the indicators of inequality, the report shows that the richest 20% of Italian families perceived the 39.3% of the total revenues, while the 20% poorest perceive the 6.7% for the. In other words, the income of the most affluent families is well-5,9 times that of the families belonging to the first fifth. If you include theimputed rent (the cost that families should support to rent a house with the same characteristics of that in which they live), the inequality decreases, and the shares respectively 7.7% and 37.3%, that is, the richest households receive an income of 4.9 times that of the families of the first the fifth.
"Between 2009 and 2014, the contraction of income is much stronger for the poorest of the poor" – In the period 2009-2014, the contraction in real income was much stronger for the families of the first the fifth, the one with the lowest income, the income equivalent medium, inclusive of rents imputed, decreased by 13%, compared with an average reduction of 9%. Result: an increase in inequality, with the income of the richest families past, from 4.6 to 4.9 times the income of the poorest families. 36.8% of the poorest households is a resident of between the South and Islands compared to 14.8% of those who live in the Centre and 11.1% of the families of the North. To the opposite positions itself in the fifth richest family of four in the North and Centre compared to 7.8% of those living in the south.
