{"id":390101,"date":"2024-09-16T14:30:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/09\/16\/italia-170mila-nuovi-difficolta-economica\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T15:53:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:53:58","slug":"italy-at-the-end-of-2023-there-were-170-thousand-more-citizens-in-economic-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/09\/16\/italy-at-the-end-of-2023-there-were-170-thousand-more-citizens-in-economic-distress\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy, at the end of 2023 there were 170 thousand more citizens in economic distress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – In Italy, the number of people undergoing\u00a0economic difficulty is increasing. <\/strong>An increasing part of the population struggles to face\u00a0unexpected expenses, keep their homes warm, and replace household appliances. In short, many\u00a0fight to have a decent life.\u00a0In 2023, compared with 2022, about 170 thousand more Italians <\/strong>struggled to pay\u00a0bills and meet deadlines, bringing the total number to about 2.8 million men and women in a condition that Eurostat defines as severe material and social\u00a0deprivation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Data in hand, at the end of 2022, there were 2,613,000 people in distress or hardship, a figure that grew to 2,788,000 at the end of 2023<\/strong>. With this increase, Italy ranks fifth in the EU in\u00a0terms of the absolute number of distressed citizens. People are struggling more in Germany (5.8 million in serious deprivation), France (4.3 million), Spain (4.2 million), and Romania (3.7 million).<\/p>\n

What stands out is not only the renewed increase in hardship in the country but also the\u00a0generalized trend.<\/strong> In 2023, the European Statistical Office notes, 6.8 percent of the EU population faced severe material and social deprivation. “The share increased slightly compared to 2022 (6.7 percent)” but grew more markedly when looking at the figure in absolute terms. In one year alone, the EU lost nearly a million men and women from the zone of economic security<\/strong>. A total of 782,000 people are struggling to get by. From 28.5 million struggling Europeans, the number has risen to 29.2 million.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eurostat data paints a picture of struggling country in a struggling EU. Italy ranks fifth in terms of population with problems with bills and deadlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":246213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26180,25746,28172,26105,28999,28998],"class_list":["post-390101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dati-eurostat-en","tag-new-poor-en","tag-families-poor-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390460,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390101\/revisions\/390460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}