Istat: 5.6 million Italians in absolute poverty

In Italy in 2020, also due to a pandemic, absolute poverty returns to grow, affecting just over two million families (7.7% of the total from 6.4% in 2019) and over 5.6 million individuals (9, 4% from 7.7% the previous year). This was announced by Istat, highlighting how after the improvement in 2019, absolute poverty increases in the year of the pandemic, reaching the highest level since 2005, when this survey began. As for relative poverty, families below the threshold are just over 2.6 million (10.1%, from 11.4% in 2019).