Messina’s is not a province for young people, but not even for the elderly. The 2025 edition of the Generational Indices of the Sole 24 Ore was presented at the Trento Festival of Trento, three rankings that have measured, for five years now, the “responses” of the territories to the specific needs of the three most fragile and together strategic generation targets, those of children, young and old. Rankings that see Messina, like most of the provinces of the South, occupy the last places.
The province of Messina is 92th for the 0-14-year band, for which the lack of green spaces and schools equipped with a gym weighs. The ranking relating to young people (18-35 year old band) sees the province of Messina in 84th place, in these cases the worst indicators concern youth unemployment, satisfaction for their work and the number of graduates. In the end, As for the elderly (over 65) Messina is even 103rdappearing in the last places for life expectancy at 65, consumption of drugs for chronic diseases, beds in the RSA (penultimate in Italy).