29,9% of the Italian population, equal to 18,2 million people, is at risk of social exclusion or poverty in 2012. This is what emerges from thethe latest data availableEurostat bills. Worse, in the Eurozone, is only Greece, where 34,6% of citizens are close to poverty. In Italy, in 2011, the percentage of the population in difficulty was 28,2% and, in 2008, 25,3%.
The European Statistical Institute notes that in Italy, in 2012, 19,4% of the population was at risk of poverty after social transfers, 14,5% were "severely materially disadvantaged" and 10,3% were people up to 59 years in “low work intensity” families. These are the three conditions considered by Eurostat to classify an individual as at risk of poverty or social exclusion. In the EU as a whole there were 24,5 million people at risk last year, or 24,8% of the population, compared to the percentages of 24,3% in 2011 and 23,7% in 2008.
