No longer bringing up the rear. In 2025, the South recorded growth in gross domestic product and employment that was higher than that of the Central-Northern regions. This is what clearly emerges from the preliminary estimates released by Istat on GDP and territorial employment. According to the National Institute of Statistics, the country’s GDP in volume showed a “moderately positive and substantially homogeneous” dynamic.
However, compared to the 0.5% recorded uniformly in the North-West, the North-East and the Centre, the South was able to do better, registering an increase of 0.6%. The gap in favor of the South becomes even more marked on the labor market front.
The South is in fact the geographical area that has most supported the growth of employment on a national scale, achieving an increase in employment of 1.5%. The Center is far behind, stopping at +1.1%, while the growth of jobs in the northern regions appears decidedly more limited: +0.9% for the North-West and +0.8% for the North-East.