Even if it is only 205 thousand units, the number of pensions paid to Italians (equal to 22 million and 759 thousand cheques) has exceeded the audience of self-employed workers and employees in factories, offices and shops (22 million 554 thousand employees). The data refer to January 1, 2022. The most "unbalanced" situation occurs in the South. If in the Centre-North - with the exceptions of Liguria, Umbria and Marche regions - the active workers, even if little, are more numerous than the pensions paid by INPS and other social security institutions, in the South the overtaking has already occurred: the latter, in fact, exceed the workers by one million and 244 thousand units. This is what the Research Office of the CGIA finds. In principle, however, the reasons for this gap between workers and the number of pensions must be sought in the strong birth rate that has been characterizing Italy for at least 30 years. In fact, the demographic decline has contributed to a reduction in the working-age population and to an increase in the incidence of over-65s in the overall population. It should be noted that, between 2014 and 2022, the Italian population in the most productive age group (25-44 years) decreased by more than one million and 360 thousand units (-2.3%). As regards the "anomalous" result of the South, it should be noted that, compared to the other geographical divisions of Italy, the number of employees is significantly lower.
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