You're born in the South and you live less. And you're 300 times more likely to be poor.

QUALITY OF LIFE SOUTHERN ITALY –

Being born in Southern Italy is becoming a curse. If fate, or some family decision, has decided that your identity card must bear the name of a municipality in Campania, Sicily, or Calabria, then you are condemned to live less. On average, three or four years less than those born in Trentino-Alto Adige or Lombardy.

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LIFE EXPECTANCY IN SOUTHERN ITALY –

The data published by "Osservatorio Salute," based on ISTAT statistics, depict an increasingly divided country. So much so that even the decline in life expectancy (from 2 to 4 months) is linked to the fact that healthcare services in the southern regions are poorer (while prevention is lacking) and the outcomes are significantly worse, lowering the national average compared to the northern regions.

POVERTY IN SOUTHERN ITALY –

Those most affected in a South where life expectancy is shorter are, as usual, women . In Campania, for example, their life expectancy has dropped by five months in the last year. And the same goes for the risk of poverty. Those born in a Southern region are 300 times more likely than those born in the North to become poor . These are statistics that should give Matteo Renzi pause when he says that the South has begun its revival. In this case, Roberto Saviano is right: the South is dead, starting with its removal from the government's agenda.

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