Inflation, Genoa is the second most expensive city in Italy. Consumers: “For spending, an average increase of € 1,116 per family”

Genoa – Genoa is the second most expensive city in Italy. This is what emerges from inflation data elaborated by Istat and reported by the National Consumers Union, relative to the month of December. In the Ligurian capital, the rise in prices is 4.6% with an increase in expenditure equal to 1,116 euros for an average family and 1,787 euros for one of four people In first place Bolzano and in third Aosta.

And Liguria is also the second most expensive region in Italy where the price growth of 4,5% implies a rise in the cost of living equal, respectively, to 1,009 for an average family and 1,665 euros for one with four members. Valle d’Aosta in first place and Trentino Alto Adige in third.

Consumer alarm

Consumer alarm for the rise in the cost of living: according to estimates by user defense associations, the new peak in prices will result in a sting that in some cases will exceed 1,000 euros per family. According to Codacons, inflation at + 3.9% determines an average sting, considering the total consumption of a “typical” family, equal to +1,198 euros per year. “We are in the presence of a real price emergency in Italy, unfortunately destined to worsen in the coming months – says the president Carlo Rienzi – Overall in 2021 the typical Italian family, due to the average inflation rate of 1.9% recorded last year, had to pay an additional 584 euros for the increase in retail prices, with peaks of +758 euros per year for a household with two children. Numbers destined to worsen in consideration of the increases in electricity and gas bills which started on January 1 and which will determine a wave of increases in all sectors. A situation that puts household consumption at serious risk “.

Second Massimiliano Dona, president of the National Consumers Union we are in the presence of “catastrophic rises. A drain due to the take-off in the prices of electricity, gas and fuel, without which the average annual inflation would be only 0.7% instead of 1.9% % and the trend rate would be 1.6% instead of 3.9%, almost 2 and a half times more “.

Dona explains that according to the association’s calculations “inflation at 3.9% means, for a couple with two children, an increase in the cost of living equal to 1,407 euros on an annual basis, 535 only for housing, water and electricity. , 519 euros for Transport. For a couple with 1 child, the annual higher cost is equal to 1,303 euros, 537 for the home, 452 for transport, on average for a family the overall increase is 1,094 euros, 504 for the house and 332 for transport. But the primacy of the sting goes to couples without children under 35 who, spending more than those with children to travel and for the house, have an annual increase of 1,439 euros, of which 635 for housing and 515 for transport “.