A third of Sardinians are at risk of poverty or social exclusion and almost 7% of the island population is in a condition of "severe material and social deprivation".

This is the worrying data that emerges from the re-elaboration made by the National Association of the Elderly and Pensioners of Confartigianato Sardegna , based on ISTAT 2022-2023 data, which also highlights a generalized reduction in real incomes due to inflation.
According to the study, 32.9% of the population of Sardinia in 2023 was at risk of poverty or social exclusion, a value down compared to 36.4% in 2022 but, in any case, much higher than the national average went from 24.4% in 2022 to 22.8% in the past year in the same period.
«The analysis of Sardinians in conditions of serious material and social deprivation – explains Confartigianato Sardegna – is also alarming: in 2023 they stood at 6.9%, up compared to 6.7% in 2022 and above the national average of 4 ,7%. Despite the increase in prices, the share of the island population at risk of poverty fell to 29% in 2023 compared to 30.8% the previous year. In any case, 17.1% of Sardinian families live with low work intensity compared to 20.1% the previous year".
«These are numbers that make us shudder because they tell us how a third of the Sardinian population has to deal, on a daily basis, with the difficulty of consuming decent meals, taking care of themselves, having decent homes and getting educated or how they have to deal with poverty» , comments Giovanni Mellino, Regional President of ANAP Confartigianato Sardinia.

«There are people behind these cold numbers   elderly and pensioners with minimal incomes, unemployed and poor workers, single-income families and former employed people who have been expelled from the world of work but also all those who have lost hope of finding a dignified job   to - continues - Mellino - that is, all those weak groups who, with inflation and the subsequent crises, have lost their spending capacity".