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What do the accounts say, in one chart?

For example, that in 2025 the State budget authorised more spending on interest on the debt (€104.8bn) than on schools and universities combined (€69.9bn). Below, this and six other facts, one per chart: each one leads to the page that explains it in full.

Interest on the debt: €104.8bn in 2025, more than the State authorises for schools and universities

Spending authorised in the State’s 2025 final accounts, not payments. Schools and universities are missions 022 and 023, added up by the portal.Open the page →

Details, method and source

Since 2000 Italy’s GDP has grown by 12.3%, the EU’s by 44.2%

GDP in volume (net of price changes), Q1 2000 = 100: a portal calculation on the Eurostat index, up to Q2 2026. The EU-27 is dashed.Open the page →

Details, method and source

Italy has the second highest public debt in the EU: 137.1% of GDP in 2025

Public debt as a % of GDP at the end of 2025: the five highest values among the 27 EU states and the EU-27 as a whole. Ranking: portal calculation; higher only means more debt.Open the page →

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Four more facts: pensioners, income, wealth and regions

In 2024 there were 1.46 people in work aged 15 to 64 for every pensioner

People in work aged 15 to 64 and people with at least one pension, 2024. Ratio: portal calculation on the unrounded values.Open the page →

Details, method and source

In 2024, 47% of those who declared an income stayed within €20,000

People by total declared income, tax year 2024. Shares: portal calculation on MEF data; flat-rate scheme income excluded.Open the page →

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In Q1 2026 the richest 10% held 60.4% of net wealth; in 2010, 52.0%

Share of total net wealth (homes, savings and businesses, minus debts) held by the richest 10% of households, as Banca d’Italia publishes it. 2026 stops at quarter 1.Open the page →

Details, method and source

In 2023, 9 territories out of 21 paid in more than they received

Public revenue minus spending by territory, 2023, billions of euros: portal calculation on the CPT. Lazio also includes the spending of the ministries in Rome.Open the page →

Details, method and source

Continue: where the State’s money comes from and where it goes →