ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The disposable income of households grows more in the Mezzogiorno than in the rest of the country: 3.38% versus 2.84% in 2024 than in 2023. To confirm the best performance of the South, six southern provinces conquer the first ten positions of the national ranking led by Rimini (+5.78%), Ragusa (+5.55%) and Venice (+4.95%). While Prato -0,13%, Imperia -0,03% and Ancona +0,36% show more difficulty. This is what emerges from the analysis of Unioncamere-Centro Studi Guglielmo Tagliacarne on the estimates 2024 of the disposable income of households with current values, measure of the capacity of expenditure of the population living in Italy.
But the distances between North and South remain marked, the pro-capite income of the Settentrione exceeds about 50% that of Meridione. Milan is firm in the first place with 36,188 euros per head, followed by Bolzano (32,680 euros) and Monza and Brianza (30,182 euros). On the opposite front, Foggia closes the ranking with 14.953 euros preceded by Agrigento (15.059 euros) and Caserta (15.288 euros).
“The available income map provides us with an articulated framework that on the one hand denies the stereotype of a South static against a dynamic North and on the other brings out new geographies.” Gaetano Fausto Esposito general manager of the Centro Studi Tagliacarne that added “between 2024 and 2023 the ranking of the available income growth sees six southern provinces between the top ten and nine northern center among the last ten. But in the South the available income per capita remains less than 23 percentage points than the Italian average. And, again, if the variation of disposable income is higher than that of the Centre-North, the value of the pay component shows a gap of about twenty percentage points compared to the rest of the country. Moreover, the primacy of the metropolitan cities – continues Esposito – real hubs of potential: with a pro-capite income exceeding 14% compared to the other provinces, also because of the higher wages of almost a third supported by the concentration of directional activities better paid and the highest cost of life. Finally, in 2024 it seems to have begun a process of recovery of disposable income that in all territorial divisions has been higher than inflation.”.
North and South still appear far away from pro-capite income in 2024 with Milan first in the ranking that exceeds 21.235 euros the value of Foggia last. You have to run the classification up to 35th position to find the first province of the Mezzogiorno – Cagliari with 24.226 euros, however also the only reality of the South in the first half of the ranking – while there are 18 the southern realities that crowd the last 20 positions. Moreover, the comparison between 2023 and 2024 confirms a sort of “cristallization” of the first six positions, which are the same also in 2021, occupied by Milan, Bolzano, Monza and Brianza, Bologna, Parma and Genoa. While showing greater dynamism are Rimini that scales eight positions and Prato that loses ten.
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