ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The added value of the South last year ran at a speed once and a half higher than that of the North, +2.89% against 1.77% of the north and 2.14 % of the Italian average compared to 2023. This is what emerges from the analysis carried out by the Centro Studi Tagliacarne e Unioncamere on the added value1 provincial to current values of 2024 that takes into account the last revision of national accounting carried out by Istat and diffused last September. In particular, in the whole of the country increases to two digits are recorded in agriculture (+10.25%), that however generates just 2,23% of the produced wealth, while on the opposite front more consistent calis are found in the manufacture (-4.10%) that realizes 19.04% of the added value.
At the regional level to move with a more shipped step are, in particular, Sardinia (+3,74%), Puglia (+3,13%) and Calabria (+3.12%). But, on a provincial basis, it is Viterbo to take more the track (+4.85%), followed by Imperia (+4.29%) and Foggia (+4.22%). However, if we look at the pro-capite wealth, it is the North with 40,158 euros to be clearly distinguished from the rest of Italy and, in particular, from the South (22.353 euros). Towing is, above all, Milan that with an added value of 65,721 euros per head confirms its leadership by touching the doubling of the national average of 33.348 euros. A final milestone currently reached in Europe only from 19 “provinces” of the European Union (of which 11 Germans) on the 1,1652 in which the EU territory is divided.
“The added value data paints a clear picture. The South confirms positive signs of dynamism by overturning the stereotype of an area structurally lagging behind the rest of the country. But the gap with the North remains wide and the wealth produced by inhabitant in the Mezzogiorno remains substantially lower. This was said by the president of Unioncamere, Andrea Prete, who added “it concerns, moreover, the bending of the manufacture, sign of a difficulty that the duties and tensions on exports could accentuate with a significant impact on GDP. This is also why a real industrial policy is urgent to enhance territorial specificities and remove obstacles to competitiveness, starting from the cost of energy even considerably higher than European competitors.”.
The 2024 marks the boom in agriculture that recorded an increase in the wealth produced by 10,25% (also due to the inflating thrusts that hit this sector more than others) and it touches 40 billion euros, the highest value since the historical series are available. Record increases are recorded in Abruzzo (+31.17%) that conquer with L’Aquila, Pescara, Chieti and Teramo the first four positions of its provincial classification. While in counter-tendenza the Sicily appears, the only Italian region to record a sign less ( -5,54%), placing all its provinces at the bottom of the ranking closed by Palermo (-6.89%).
Signals of suffering, instead, emerge from the manufacture. In 2024, the entire industrial sector -extractive, manufacturing and utilities- recorded a decline of 4.1% compared to 2023, interrupting a virtuous path of continuous growth started since 2015 (net of the 2020 stoppage due to the outbreak of the pandemic). Exceptions are only eight provinces that close last year with a more sign, guided by Reggio di Calabria (+3.08%), Viterbo (+1.64%) and Rieti (+1.60%). A fact that is worrying, since industry in a strict sense has been an important development engine over the years. Between 2000 and 2024, in fact, in the 16 provinces in which the incidence of this sector on the local economy is increased also an average year increase of added value (+2.5%), with peaks in Bolzano of +3.3%. While in the 91 provinces that, in the same temporal arc, have seen decrease the weight of the same sector the increase appears more contained (+2.2% annually).
Between 2023 and 2024, the added value of the North moves slowly. To make more effort are Emilia-Romagna +0,95%, Veneto +1,20% and Friuli-Venezia Giulia +1,35%. The difficulties of extending the Settentrione pass are also found at the provincial level. With the exception of Imperia, second in the standings for growth with an increase of 4,29%, it is necessary to flow until the 15th position, occupied by Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (+3.24%), to find another reality of the North. While the last five provinces close the ranking substantially confirming the value produced in 2023 are Modena (-0.03%), Vicenza (+0.40%), Reggio nell’Emilia (+0.50%), Bergamo (+0.60%) and Parma (+0.61%). All reality, the latter, characterized by a strong presence of the industrial sector and therefore, more than others, pay the recent difficulties of the sector. But the wealth produced pro-capite remains firm to the Settentrione 40,158 euros, which rises to 41.095 euros to the North West, in front of the 22.353 euros to the South.
It is Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol to prime with 48,869 euros per head, followed in the “medagliere” from Lombardy 45,019 and the Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste 43.463. Milan rises in the provincial classification (65.721euro), followed by Bolzano / Bozen (55.065) and Bologna (45.125). Replicating the same podium of the year 2000, with the exception of Bologna that kicked Rome. While on the opposite front are all southern the last 28 provinces occupying the ranking, with South Sardinia tail light (18.140 euros), preceded by Cosenza (18.166 euros) and Agrigento (18.220 euros).
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