ROMA (ITALPRESS) – For the fourth consecutive year the South has grown more than the Italian average. Consumption data of 2025 recorded a GDP of the southern regions increased by 0.7%, compared to 0.5% of the centre-north, with a growth rate, however, less than 2024 when it reached 1%. It hasn’t happened for many years since the post-war economic boom. However, it concerns the growth gap in Italy with respect to the European Union.
If in 2025 the national GDP grew by half a percentage point, below also by 0.8% of 2024, it remains stable below the average EU to 27, +1.5%. Spain continues its significant expansion +2.8%, France stands at 0.8%, Germany, instead, after the recession of the previous two years, is firm at a modest 0.2%. In this context the performance of the individual regions appears very variable. In the South stands the figure of Abruzzo +1.9%, thanks to the driving of industry and, in particular, construction. Campania also recorded a good result with an increase of 0.9%, Calabria is better than the national average with a 0.8%.
Many regions of the North suffer the weakness of export, resulting in the geopolitical crisis, and this is very evident in Lombardy and Veneto. In 2025 gross fixed investments marked a +3.5%, reflecting a trend consolidated since 2021, when the Superbonus first (private residential building), and the Pnnr later (non-private residential building and public works), gave a decisive boost to growth. The dynamics of public spending clearly highlights the impact of the investment cycle activated by the Pnrr from 2023 onwards.
In the three-year period 2022-25 the investments in public works have almost doubled in both areas of the country: +88.3% in the South and +87.8% in the Centre-north. Moreover, there is a certain variability between the individual regions but in any case in a context of growth that for all, except Trentino Alto-Adige (region under special statute) and Abruzzo (where the private component has “course”), was more than 60%. The regions that have marked the most important increases are the Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the Aosta Valley, Lazio, Tuscany, Puglia and Calabria.
SBARRA “CRESCE PIÙ DEL RESTO DEL PAESE, PERFORMANCE SENZA PRECEDENTI”
“The SVIMEZ report published today certifies a very important figure: in 2025 South GDP grows more than the rest of the country for the fourth consecutive year. It is a result that marks a discontinuity compared to the past.” In a note, the Undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Council with delegation to the South, Luigi Sbarra, with reference to the data made known by Svimez this morning. “Svimez estimates – says the Undersecretary – consolidate a very positive path: in the last four years the Mezzogiorno has recorded an increase of 9.5%, against 6.6% of the Centre-North. A performance that has no record in recent decades. Determined was the role of public investment, supported significantly by the resources of the PNRR. In the three years 2022-2025 the investments in public works in the Mezzogiorno are almost doubled, with an increase of 88%”.
“Particularly encouraging – continues Sbarra – also data on the employment front. For the fifth consecutive year, in 2025 the Mezzogiorno recorded an increase in employment higher than that of the Centre-North. In this dynamic the contribution of women’s employment emerges, which grows at an almost double rate than that of men. Positive also the signs that come from the quality of work, with the increase of contracts indefinitely and the contextual reduction of those at term”.
“The framework outlined today by SVIMEZ – the Undersecretary observes – describes a Mezzogiorno growing in GDP, investment and employment, especially female and stable. It is the result of a precise political choice by the Meloni Government: investing in the South, accompanying its growth and development through the resources of the PNRR for public interventions and the ZES Unica for private investments. A strategy that the Government intends to further strengthen, as demonstrated by the billion euro allocated in the recent Labour Decree to support employment incentives and promote stable and quality work creation.” “The strengthening of the economic and social dynamics of the Mezzogiorno is not only a positive result for the South. It is good news for the whole of Italy, because a stronger South means a more competitive country, more cohesive and able to grow as a whole”, concludes Undersecretary Sbarra.
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