In 2023, "the increase in the number of employed people aged between 20 and 64 continues (+404,000 units, +1.8% compared to 2022), although with a slight slowdown compared to the previous year" The employment rate "reaches 66.3% (+1.5 percentage points), exceeding that of 2019 by 2.7 percentage points. Life expectancy in good health in 2023 is equal to 59.2 years and is reduced compared to 60.1 years in 2022.
In 2021, "this reduction has brought the indicator back almost to the 2019 level (58.6 years)," indicates the Institute of Statistics (Bes). In 2023, life expectancy in our country "is equal to 83. 1 years, an increase compared to 2012 (82.3)", a figure which "almost completely recovers the 2019 level (83.2 years)." For women, there are still 0.2 more years left (85.4 in 2019) than in 2012. In 2023, around 4.5 million citizens had to give up medical visits or diagnostic tests due to economic problems. Hospital emigration outside the region also returns to pre-Covid levels. North-East remains the area with the highest level of care for frail elderly people. In Italy, the gap between men and women in terms of satisfaction with life continues to increase. In 2019, the difference between the percentage of'very satisfied' and'very satisfied' was 2.6 points. In 2023, it reached 3.9 points with 48.7% of women and 48.8% of men satisfied with their lives. In 2022, 8.3% of hospitalizations under ordinary acute care. Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, and Puglia are the regions with the greatest outgoing flows not compensated by incoming flows. In Sicily and Sardinia, although the hospital emigration index is low, it is much higher than the hospital immigration index. The share of elderly people assisted in integrated home care (ADI) continues to rise, from 2.9% in 2019 to 3.3%.