The Bank of Italy has released updated experimental Distributional Wealth Accounts for Italian households through the fourth quarter of 2025. The data show net wealth of EUR 453,000 per household, up slightly from EUR 431,000 in 2024, while wealth remained highly concentrated and the Gini index rose to 72.2 from 71.5. The Distributional Wealth Accounts provide quarterly distributional statistics on household wealth by combining the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, the harmonized euro area survey on household finances, with national accounts aggregates. In the fourth quarter of 2025, the wealthiest 10 per cent of households held 60.6 per cent of total net wealth, while the bottom half held 7.2 per cent. Asset composition also differed sharply across groups. For households in the bottom half, more than 90 per cent of assets were dwellings at 73.6 per cent and deposits at 17.5 per cent, while households in higher wealth brackets held more diversified portfolios with a larger share of financial instruments other than deposits.
Bank of Italy2026-06-03
Bank of Italy publishes experimental household wealth distribution data for fourth quarter 2025 showing higher net wealth and slightly wider inequality
The Bank of Italy released updated experimental Distributional Wealth Accounts for Italian households through the fourth quarter of 2025, showing average net wealth of EUR 453,000 per household, up from EUR 431,000 in 2024. Wealth remained highly concentrated, with the top 10 per cent holding 60.6 per cent of net wealth, the bottom half 7.2 per cent, and the Gini index rising to 72.2, while lower-wealth households’ assets were concentrated in dwellings and deposits compared with more diversified holdings among wealthier groups.