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 –

Born in Noon Italy is becoming a curse. If fate, or some family will, has decided that the name of a municipality in Campania, Sicily, or Calabria must appear on your identity card, then It means you're 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, show us an increasingly divided country. To the point that even the decrease in life expectancy (2 to 4 months) it is linked to the fact that in the southern regions health care services are poorer (while there is no prevention) and with decidedly worse results, lowering the national average, compared to the Northern regions.

POVERTY IN SOUTHERN ITALY –

The people most penalised in a South where people live less are, as usual, the womenIn Campania, for example, 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 to become poor than those born in the North.These are statistics that should give Matteo Renzi pause when he says that the revival has begun in the South. In this case, Roberto Saviano is right: the South is dead, starting with its erasure from the government's agenda.

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