(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 31 - In recent years, maintaining a child in Italy has cost about 640 euros a month, about a quarter of the average household income.
In 2020, however, thanks to the restrictions of the pandemic, spending dropped slightly to 580 euros: less travel and less spending for free time.
This is the photograph taken by Bank of Italy in its Annual Report, evaluating the 2017-2020 period and the families made up of 2 adults and one or more minors.
And the North-South gap of the country also reverberates on the children: at midday less is spent but the incidence on income is more or less unchanged and in any case more than half (60%) of the total is used to meet basic needs, food, clothing and expenses for the home, education and health (ANSA).
