In Sardinia, the GDP does not grow, the island is the rear region in Italy together with Calabria .
The figure emerges from the analysis of regional economies by the Confcommercio study centre, released to coincide with the annual meeting. The South in general is "stuck in the pits" , while the gaps with the North are widening: the South in 2023 will in fact grow almost three times less than the North.
In first place is Lombardy with a 1.7% growth in GDP, in last place Calabria and Sardinia with zero growth . The 2023 GDP estimate is +1.4% for the North-West and North-East, +1.2% in the Center (which is also the Italian average) and +0.5% in the South.
In the growth estimates, Lombardy is followed by Veneto and Valle d'Aosta (+1.5%), then Trentino Alto Adige, Emilia Romagna and Tuscany (+1.4%). Followed by Liguria (+1.3%), Friuli and Lazio (+1.2%), Abruzzo and Marche (+1.1%). The gap becomes clearer with Puglia at +0.9%, Piedmont +0.7%, Umbria +0.6%, Campania +0.5%, Sicily, Basilicata and Molise +0.2%. Still, desolately motionless, Calabria and Sardinia .
The gap is also confirmed for consumption : +1.2% in the North, +0.4% in the South: if the Italian average is +1%, in Sardinia consumption grows by only 0.3%, less than in rest of the noon. And considering the comparison with those of 2020, they are even down by 0.6% .
The report also dwells on demography: as could be expected, only the South is depopulated. In 2023, the Italian population decreased by almost one million people compared to 2019, of which more than half in the South. Employment weighs heavily, in the South the employed "are less than they were 30 years ago" .
The picture of business demography, on the other hand, reveals an "increasingly tertiary economy" and that "more businesses are being born in the south" : the report highlights that "the outsourcing process of our economy continues unabated, market service businesses, those that Confcommercio represents, came close to 2.8 million in the first quarter of this year, or 54.8% of the total».
