Individuals with a chronic disease in Italy 2022, by type
In 2021, around 23.7 million people in Italy suffered from at least one chronic disease. This statistic presents the number of individuals enduring each type of the most common chronic diseases in the same year. Hypertension was the most widespread disorder, affecting almost 10.9 million Italians, while around 8.7 million of them suffered from osteoarthritis or arthritis.