The work of foreigners is worth 9% of GDP. And Veneto alone weighs more than the South
For the Leone Moressa Foundation in 2024 the value is 177 billion. Employees with non-Italian citizenship are 10.5%
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The contribution of foreign workers to the national GDP is worth 177 billion: it is 9% of the total added value produced by employment in Italy (1,966 billion euro according to the national economic accounts). Workers with non-Italian citizenship are 2.51 million and represent 10.5% of the total workforce.
These are some of the numbers of the 15th Annual Report on the Economy of Immigration 'From foreigners to new Italians: how immigration is changing', by the Leone Moressa Foundation, which will be presented on 20 October in Rome (Cnel, from 11am to 1pm) and which Il Sole 24 Ore del Lunedì can anticipate.
"The GDP of immigration"
In reality, the number of employed persons of non-Italian origin is higher, but the acquisition of citizenship makes these workers progressively drop out of the statistics of foreigners. At the beginning of 2024, there were almost two million Italian citizens from another country.
What Fondazione Moressa calls the 'GDP of immigration' has therefore exceeded the 8.8% incidence on the total added value recorded in 2023. '9% on the GDP is still a limited incidence and even lower than that of foreign workers,' explains Chiara Tronchin, a researcher at Fondazione Leone Moressa. 'The reason,' she continues, 'is to be found in the fact that foreign workers are placed in professions with lower added value.
The calculation of the contribution of foreign workers to GDP was carried out starting from the added value produced by those employed in Italy, assuming that for the same sector and region, the productivity of foreign employees is the same as that of Italians.
