There is a sense of solitude that generates despair among the people of this province that finds themselves crushed under the weight of territorial inequalities. Istat defined the perimeters of the territorial economic accounts from which a negative spiral emerges that is sucking the latest hopes for recovery in this south of southern Italy, increasingly poor and desperate. The numbers refer to 2023 and describe a GDP for Calabria by +1.3% to indicate an unusual virtuosity. A well -being that has crossed the whole South that has become the country’s development engine with an average growth of 1.5%, thanks to the push of public funding and by a very dynamic export. Results that have overturned the narration of a south perpetually in trouble. However, the change of paradigm that is accompanying the internal product does not correspond, however, an improvement in family accounts. A non -growth inspired by an available income that has increased to a lower extent to the increase in inflation.
In recent weeks, the Svimez had published the consumption data of families in 2023, estimating in a +1.1% the growth recorded in the South, that is, two percentage points less than the rest to the country’s performance, with apparently more growth small in Calabria which marked a +0.6%. Elements that are found in the ISTAT map on families available. In 2023, Calabria closed the year in the last place with an income for inhabited ages of 16,173 euros. The available income, therefore, is clearly lower than the added value. At the bottom of the national ranking, only two other regions, Campania (16,455 euros) and Sardinia (16,907 euros) are unable to exceed the bar of 17 thousand euros. In terms of GDP per inhabitant, the Region has a figure of 21,000 euros, which, also in this case, is the poorest figure in Italy. In Cosenza, the GDP per inhabitant (but refers to 2022 when Calabria had an average of a GDP of 19,600 euros for each resident) is 18,100 euros, which is the lowest figure among the five “sisters”. So, last of the last. The richest province is Catanzaro with a per capita GDP of 22,300 euros.
