Poverty Headcount / Italy
Italy Poverty Headcount
Italy poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 20.10%.
COUNTRY: Italy
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-10-10 08:45:17
GM ECONOMY RATING
Italy · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
60 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
11.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
6.0 / 15
Financial robustness
7.0 / 15
Structural stability
15.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
1.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Italy · poverty headcount data as percent of GDP.
Latest
20.10%
Previous
20.10%
Range avg.
20.01%
Rank
38
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CountryItaly
IndicatorPoverty Headcount
20.10%2021 · Rank 38
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Italy recorded 20.10% for Poverty Headcount in 2021, the latest available observation in this dataset.
The value was unchanged from the previous available observation in 2020 (20.10%).
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (20.01%).
Across the five latest available observations (2017–2021), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 19.30% in 2012 and the high was 20.60% in 2015.
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