Overview
- EU Commission forecasts place Italy’s 2025 GDP per capita at purchasing-power parity with France’s.
- The gap with Germany has more than halved from 24.3% in 2020 to 13.9% in 2025.
- Italy’s population grew by just 3.6% between 2000 and 2024, artificially inflating per-person GDP through a shrinking denominator.
- Lower living costs in small towns and peripheral regions enhance Italians’ real purchasing power relative to major European cities.
- GDP per employee declined 5.8% between 2020 and 2024 even as employment growth matched that of France and Germany.