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04 September 201920.11 The gap between the richest and poorest sections of the population grows: 10% of Italians with the highest incomes can count on 25.1% of total incomes (the maximum since 2008), while 10% with the lower incomes have just 2% of the total. These are the latest Eurostat figures. For the more affluent, growth from 2017 to 2018 was 0.7 points. In 2018 people at risk of poverty have fallen by one million small to 2017, but they are still 16.4 million, the lowest level after 2011.