(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 14 - Foreign citizens are more exposed to poverty.
If in the pre-pandemic years absolute poverty in families of only foreigners stood at 24.4% (almost one in four, according to Istat parameters, did not reach a decent standard of living), with Covid-19 the situation has worsened: today more than one family out of four is poor in absolute terms (26.7%), compared to an incidence of 6% recorded among Italian families.
In one year, the incidence increased by + 2.3%, bringing the number of poor foreign families to 568 thousand.
This is what emerges from the 2021 Immigration Report of Caritas and Migrantes.
The pandemic effect also results from the amount of population of foreign origin, which went from 5,306,548 in 2020 to the current 5,035,643 (-5.1%).
Arrivals fell by 42% compared to the average for the five-year period 2015-2019.
Covid has also caused the loss of many jobs for the foreign population, especially for women.
Finally, the two bodies of the Italian Episcopal Conference denounce "structural delays" in the vaccination plan with reference to non-Italian people.
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