TOalthough it is true that i Eurostat data certify that young Italians leave home a little before the age of 30, which had not happened since 2013, it is also true that compared to other countries we are doing very badly.
Young people out of the house a little earlier
Not in the least comparable to Sweden or FinlandCountries where people leave home between the ages of 19 and 21, Italy took a small step forward in 2021: the average age at which young people they go to live alonefell from just over 30 years to 29.9 years.
I don’t study, I don’t work: the Neet phenomenon is growing
A small improvement. But, on the other hand, another disconcerting phenomenon is unfortunately growing, that of Neet: are young people who do not study and do not work.
The latest Eurostat data, referring to 2020, places Italy in the worst position in Europe, with an incidence of young people who do not study and do not work between the ages of 20 and 34 approximately 12% higher than the European average (29.4% against 17.6%).
For young Italians, finding work is difficult and when they find it, the salary certainly does not encourage them to leave the house
Young people away from home: Italy is not the worst
Returning to the abandonment of the domestic roof, the new data allows us to move away, even if very little, from the “psychological threshold” of 30 years, above which we have maintained from 2014 onwards.
Worse than the Italians? There are the “young people” of Greece, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Portugal and Croatia. All countries, moreover, like Italy, in which the thirty-year-olds are more precarious, poorer and with fewer opportunities than other age groups for a long time.
The pandemic has only made a present situation worse
And the aftermath of the pandemic only made this stagnant situation worse: the loss of work, especially for young people, women and foreignerswho in Italy are constantly the most precarious and therefore the most dismissable, certainly does not encourage people to leave home.
We can definitely admit that the youth policies, so much heralded by all political parties, it was just words. But without suitable measures, emancipation from the family is very difficult in Italy.
From the latest Istat Report it emerges that there are now 7 million young people living at home with their parents, equal to 67.6% of the total. In short, in 50 years we have gone from half to two thirds.
But what big babies, young Italians are just poor
In short, Italians are not big babies or “choosy“, As the ministers Padoa Schioppa and Elsa Fornero defined them. To prevent their autonomy from the family are economic difficulties.
In Swedenwhere you leave home at 19, the youth employment rate is close to 70%. And it is over 60% also in Finland and Denmark, Countries where young people go to live alone just over twenty-one. But these countries give them the opportunity to do so.
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