Nearly three in ten Sardinians are at risk of poverty. This is one of the findings from the Eurostat report on the state of the regions of European Union countries.
The Luxembourg-based statistical office highlights that in 2024, 16.2% of the EU population – approximately 72.1 million people – was at risk of poverty, a number in line with the percentage recorded the previous year.
According to Eurostat, the region of the Old Continent with the highest percentage of inhabitants at risk of poverty is French Guiana (53.3%), followed by Ciudad de Melilla (41.4%) in Spain and Calabria (37.2%).
On the island, the percentage is 25.7%, a figure that places Sardinia in fifth place among the Italian regions most at risk, after the aforementioned Calabria, Campania (35.5%), Sicily (35.3%) and Puglia (30.9%).
Conversely, the Italian territories with the lowest percentage of population at risk are the Province of Bolzano (5.9%), that of Trento (6.9%) and Emilia Romagna (7.3%).
The autonomous province of Bolzano is also among the regions in Europe that recorded the lowest rates overall, after the Romanian region of Bucharest-Ilfov (3.7%) and the Belgian Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen (5.4%).
(Unioneonline/lf)
