In 2025, the province of Benevento recorded 114,554 active pensions and 86,707 employed people, according to an analysis by CGIA Mestre based on INPS and ISTAT data and reported by NTR24. That leaves a gap of 27,847: there are almost 28,000 more pensions than employed people in Sannio.
The figures count active pensions, not individual pensioners, and employed people, not contributors alone. They should not be read as a one-to-one comparison of pensioners and workers, but they give a clear picture of the demographic and employment balance in the province.
Benevento in the Campania picture
Campania as a whole recorded 1,869,492 pensions and 1,766,680 employed people in 2025, a negative balance of 102,812.
Within the region, Benevento had the second-smallest negative pension-to-employment balance, after Caserta. In other words, while the number of active pensions remains high relative to employment across Campania, the gap is smaller in Sannio than in most other provinces in the region.
Italy remains in positive territory
At the national level, Italy had 24.1 million employed people and nearly 23.2 million pensions in 2025. The result was a positive national balance of 935,337 more employed people than active pensions.
The comparison helps place the local figure in context: the country overall still has more employed people than pensions, while Campania and Benevento show the opposite pattern.
Why the imbalance matters
The CGIA analysis links the imbalance to demographic ageing, declining births, low employment levels and undeclared work. These are structural factors rather than short-term fluctuations.
The article also identifies greater participation by young people and women as one possible measure for reducing the effects of demographic change. The available material does not provide the underlying official datasets or a separate methodological breakdown, and the data describe 2025 without establishing how the Benevento balance changed over earlier years.
For readers in Benevento and Sannio, the 27,847 gap is therefore best understood as a signal of long-term pressure: an older population, fewer births, and an employment base that remains too narrow to offset the number of active pensions.
