Over 28% of people in Italy risk poverty, exclusion

(ANSA) - Rome, October 30 - National statistics agency Istat said Thursday that 28.4% of people living in Italy in 2013 were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. The figure, contained in an Istat report on earnings and life conditions, was actually 1.5 percentage points down on 2012. Istat said the risk of poverty or exclusion dropped last year for elderly people living alone (from 41.7% to 38.3%) and for couples with one child (from 24.3% to 21.7%). But it increased for families with three or more children, from 39.8% to 43.7%.