The south-north gap is narrowing, Bolzano is losing the primacy of ‘BenVivere’ – News

The South is closing the gap with the North and the Center, and Bolzano is losing its consolidated lead in the ranking to Pordenone: this is what appears from the sixth edition of the Report on Live well and the Generation of the Italian Regions 2024. the subject of a special issue ‘The civil economy’, insert in Avvenire, out today and distributed during the National Festival of the Civil Economy, in Florence until tomorrow.
Looking at the ranking, therefore, Bolzano loses the first position on the podium for the first time in six years, falling to the tenth place, due to a decline in legal and safety measures , demographics and family, environment, culture and tourism and of the economy and inclusion.

Prato also fell from the podium, dropping 8 positions.
So the priority goes to Pordenone (+1 position compared to 2023), Siena in second place (+4), Milan in third place (+1). In the top 10 there are four new entries: Trieste, fourth (+19); Rimini, seventh (+23); Udine, eighth (+11); Parma, ninth (+2). However, the areas that appear are Bologna (-3), Prato (-8), Gorizia (-3) and Ancona (-11). Completing the top 10 were Florence (steady in fifth place) and Trento in sixth position (+1).

Among the areas that recorded a clear increase in 2024 compared to last year, gaining more than 15 positions, are Isernia (+37, in 39th position), Novara (+28, in 21st), Venice ( +26, in 17th), Benevento (+24, in 77th), Ferrara (+24, in 30th), Rimini (+23, in seventh), Belluno (+22, in 22nd), Trieste (+19, in fourth), Vercelli (+18, in 47th) and Teramo (+15, in 35th).
At the bottom of the ranking are some southern regions: Crotone and Reggio Calabria are in last and last place respectively. Taranto loses two positions compared to 2023 and falls to third place in the final stage. Also on Flop 10 are Caltanissetta (+1), Foggia (+3), Catania (-3) and Naples (+3).

Despite this evidence, the South at the same time registers the greatest increase in the level of Ben na Aivhne with Isernia +4.28 and Benevento +2.84, obtaining a total score of +0.43 and thus reducing the gap with the North by 0.36 points and with the Center by 0.54 points (the North recorded positive results of +0.07, while the Center reported a slight decrease of -0.11) .

In summary, the Report shows that “unlike last year, overall average scores improved among the 107 districts (+0.17%), as well as among the top ten worse (+0.23%), but suffered a decline. , on the other hand, among the top ten (-0.33%) in other words, there is a greater overall state of well-being, the second half of the ranking is closer to the first, they are closer ranked first and last to second.”
The dimensions at Beinn na h’Aivhne in which, on average, the highest levels are recorded are Legal and Safety, Health and Work. The dimensions that have, on the other hand, the lowest levels on average are Civic Commitment, Environment, Culture and Tourism, Hospitality.

Moving on to the ranking of Generativity 2024, the podium, compared to the previous year, does not change: Bolzano, first and stable; Milan, second (+1); Trento, third (-1). However, the three main conditions record a decline in the generation rate. In the top 10 there are four new entries: Gorizia, fourth (+33), Verona, seventh (+8), Mantua, eighth (+6), Rimini, ninth (+17). However, Bologna (-18), Reggio Emilia (-25), Piacenza (-5) and Ragusa (-6) appeared.
Completing the top 10 were Pordenone (fifth, -1), Treviso (sixth, +2) and Cuneo (tenth, -3).

Unlike Beinna Yvraich, in terms of Generative, we read in the report, “overall we see a worsening both in terms of level and an increase in inequalities, between the first one, between the last and between the first and the last”. However, “most of the provinces that register progress show a positive trend (increase) in the net registration rate in the business register (nearly 70% of the provinces), in the reduction of NEETs (nearly 88%), in the percentage of foreign companies (increase to more than 80%), in the marriage rate”.

The rankings were designed by analyzing a series of indicators related to dimensions such as hospitality, environment, tourism and culture, human capital, demographic and family, economy and inclusion, civic commitment, work, legality and safety , health, personal services. In particular, however, thirteen are the indicators that define the generation score, including separate waste collection, the number of innovative startups, the marriage and birth rate, average age mothers at child birth, average number of children, NEETs, industries. of strangers, the vote with your wallet’.