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Milan

Italy · euro · share price index, latest 2026-09

The city is a label: every national figure here is Italy's own, and the cost of living is one survey's answer for one adult, with its method and its year.

Poverty line

The least a household needs to spend to avoid being counted as poor.

€1,256.37a month · 2025

Monthly absolute poverty threshold, one person aged 30–59, Lombardy, metropolitan-area centre.

  • Housing: inside the total, not shown on its own: Housing is inside the threshold; ISTAT publishes it as one total
  • In euros, no conversion
  • ISTAT, 2025

No basket split: ISTAT publishes the threshold as one total per household type, region and municipality type; the components exist only as national averages across all households.

How it has changed since 2014

Milan's poverty line rose 23% from 2014 to 2025, in step with prices, while what a person in Italy spends on average rose 35%.

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Each line is 100 in 2014. ISTAT has published this threshold every year since 2014 on one method.

The whole record

Stock market

At 234 in September 2026, more than double its 2015 level, in euros and before inflation.

House prices, after inflation

24% below 2010, and still under the 2007 peak.

The economy

Inflation, one year
1.5%
2025
Average spending per person
€1,839 a month
2025
Income per person, adjusted for local prices
$62,870
2025
Unemployment
6.4%
2025
Life expectancy
84 years
2024

What the economy is made of

What the country produces, which is what most people there work in; not which companies move the stock market.

  • Services 64.5%
  • Industry 22.6% (manufacturing 15%)
  • Agriculture 2.1%
  • Taxes less subsidies 10.8%
How this is calculated
Poverty line
ISTAT absolute poverty threshold is Italy's own method: The monthly spending below which a household cannot buy the basket ISTAT defines as essential: food, an adequately sized heated home, and a residual of clothing, transport, communication, health and education. It is not interchangeable with another country's survey, which is why no other city's figure sits beside it.
Prices
No carry-forward. The survey (2025) is not older than Italy's latest CPI year (2025), so nothing is carried: a year of inflation not yet published is not guessed. World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average.
In euros
Italy uses the euro: no conversion. the euro.
Change since 2014
Each series divided by its 2014 value. Prices: World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average. Spending: World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CN ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, current local currency, household final consumption divided by population, per month. ISTAT has published this threshold every year since 2014 on one method.
Stock market
OECD via FRED SPASTT01ITM661N, monthly, 2015 = 100, in euros and before inflation, on a logarithmic scale: equal distance is equal percentage change. Latest 2026-09.
House prices, after inflation
BIS via FRED QITR628BIS, quarterly, 2010 = 100. Indexed to Italy's own 2010, so only the direction compares across countries, never the level. Latest 2026-Q1.
Sources

ISTAT IstatData, dataflow 34_211_DF_DCCV_SOGLIAPOVA_2 · REF_AREA ITC4, household typology 40, municipality size 2 · retrieved 29 Oct 2026

Next release: mid-October 2027 (the 2026 report)

World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CD ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, ECB annual average · World Bank NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD · World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · World Bank SP.DYN.LE00.IN · World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · World Bank NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.MANF.ZS · derived: 100 less agriculture, industry and services. Taxes less subsidies is 100 less the three sectors.