Sardinia, the employment rate remains among the lowest in Europe
In 2022, 58.6% of the island's population will be at work: growing numbers compared to 2021, but still five percentage points below the EU minimums
Sardinia's employment rate is among the lowest in Europe.
The photograph comes from new data released by Eurostat , relating to 2022.
The report highlights how all the regions of Southern Italy have employment rates below the EU minimums (i.e. lower than 63.3%), with Sardinia standing at 58.6% , ahead of Puglia (53.4 %) and Basilicata (57.3%), but behind Molise (58.8%) and Abruzzo 62.8%. But the worst data at a national level are those of Sicily, Calabria and Campania, where less than half of the population was employed in 2022. In detail: in Sicily 46.2%, in Calabria 47% and in Campania 47.3%.
It should be noted, however, that the Sardinian figure is growing by 1.6% compared to the previous survey: in 2021 the employment rate on the island was in fact at 57%.
All this while, underlines Eurostat, in 2022 the EU average employment rate reached its historic maximum, i.e. 74.6%.
But, as mentioned, the differences between the 242 regions of the Old Continent taken into consideration are notable. The best numbers are recorded in Northern Europe: the peaks in employment at a continental level are in fact recorded in the Finnish archipelago of Aland (89.7%), in the Dutch region of Utrecht (85.1%) and in the Swedish region of capital Stockholm (where it exceeds 85%).
"Scandinavian" exploit also in the district of the Polish capital Warsaw, which in 2022 recorded an employment rate of 85.4%.
