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Istat Finds 5.7 Million Residents in Absolute Poverty as 2024 Rates Hold at Series High

Istat flags a decade-long deterioration for foreign households, which now face the steepest poverty incidence in the survey series.

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Overview

  • Istat estimates 2.2 million families (8.4%) and 5.7 million individuals (9.8%) in absolute poverty in 2024, broadly stable versus 2023 yet the highest levels since the series began in 2014.
  • Poverty is far more prevalent among families with foreigners: 30.4% where at least one member is foreign and 35.2% for foreign-only households, compared with 6.2% for Italian-only families; about 1.8 million foreign residents face absolute poverty (35.6% of individuals) versus 7.4% of Italians.
  • Children remain heavily affected with about 1,283,000 minors in absolute poverty (13.8%), the series peak, and 734,000 families with minors poor (12.3%) where poverty intensity is higher than the overall average.
  • Geographical disparities persist as the Mezzogiorno records the highest family incidence (10.5%) and the Islands see a notable rise in individual poverty to 13.4%, with substantial variation across municipality types and metropolitan areas.
  • Housing condition is a key fault line with nearly 1.05 million poor families renting and an incidence of 22.1% among renters compared with 4.7% among homeowners, while small non‑peripheral communes show the highest overall incidence at 8.9%.