The Survey on Income and Living Conditions, carried out in 2024 on income from the previous year, indicates that 16.6% of people were at-risk-of-poverty in 2023, 0.4 percentage points (pp) less than in 2022. The at-risk-of-poverty rate corresponded, in 2023, to the proportion of inhabitants with net monetary income (per adult equivalent) of less than 7,588 Euro (632 Euro per month).

The reduction in poverty was not, however, shared by all age groups: it decreased for those under 18 years of age and for adults of working age (respectively, less 2.9 pp and less 1.6 pp), but increased for the elderly population (plus 4.0 pp).

The at-risk-of-poverty decreased both for the employed population, from 10.0% in 2022 to 9.2% in 2023, and for the unemployed population, from 46.7% in 2022 to 44.3% in 2023.

Social transfers, related to illness and disability, family, unemployment and social inclusion, contributed to the reduction of the risk of poverty by 4.8 pp (from 21.4% to 16.6%), a higher contribution than in the previous year (4.2 pp).

In 2024 (2023 incomes), 2,096 thousand people were at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion (people at-risk-of-poverty or living in households with very low work intensity per capita or in a situation of severe material and social deprivation). Consequently, the poverty or social exclusion rate was 19.7%, 0.4 pp less than in the previous year.

Inequality decreased in 2023: the Gini coefficient was 31.9%, 1.8 pp less than in 2022 (33.7%), and the S80/S20 ratio, which compares the sum of the equivalent net monetary income of the 20% of the population with the highest resources with the sum of the equivalent net monetary income of the 20% of the population with the lowest resources, decreased, from 5.6 in 2022 to 5.2 in 2023.