North-South divide: the 10 key factors blocking the South. From GDP to education to health
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A backward South but with great potential: the GDP
A two-speed Italy. This is the image that emerges from the report “Territorial gaps in the Pnrr” released by Istat. A focus that brings together the 10 key indicators of the gap between the North and the South of the country. An area described as backward and which suffered markedly from the Great Crisis of 2008 and, most recently, from the impact of the pandemic. In the report it is defined for a context with great potential and internal differentiations, where over 20 million inhabitants (about a third of the Italian population), with a productive fabric which – albeit weak and incomplete – could generate positive effects for the country. The gap thus translates into numbers and a first element to analyze is GDP in 2021. In terms of gross domestic product the richest region is Trentino-Alto Adige with 40,904 euros of GDP per capita. Calabria is last with 16,168. Istat writes: For over twenty years the GDP per capita in the South has been around 55-58% in the Centre-North; in 2021 the real GDP of around 18 thousand euros (33 thousand in the Centre-North). The whole of Southern Italy is below the national average (here the analysis on the different cost of living between cities).
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