People living a sedentary lifestyle in Italy 2022-2023, by region

Between 2022 and 2023, around 28.1 percent of adults in Italy were found to live a sedentary lifestyle. A sedentary lifestyle is here defined as not doing any physical activity in leisure time and not having a job, or having a sedentary job, or a job that even if it requires physical effort is not continuous over time. This statistic highlights regional differences in this figure. According to the data, this kind of lifestyle was more common among people living in Southern regions than among individuals from the rest of Italy. The autonomous province of Bolzano stood out among other regions, with only 7.6 percent of its residents declaring to be sedentary. This statistic shows the share of individuals living a sedentary lifestyle in Italy between 2022 and 2023, by region.