Just over 2.2 million households in
Italy, 8.4% of the total, were living in conditions of absolute
poverty in 2023, Istat said in a report on Thursday.
The national statistics agency said this was stable with respect
to 2022.
It added that the incidence of absolute poverty for families
with at least one foreign member was 30.4%.
It said the incidence for all-Italian households, on the other
hand, was 6.3%.
Istat said 5.7 million individuals, 9.7% of the population, were
living in absolute poverty last year.
This was also stable with respect to 2022 as was the figure for
the proportion of families in relative poverty - 10.6%.
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