What the view shows
The same measure at three territorial levels, without changing the data scope.
In 2025 the CAP disbursed €7.70 billion in Italy to 451,033 beneficiaries across 7,738 municipalities. Sicily receives 11.3% of the funds, followed by Puglia (9.7%) and Emilia-Romagna (9.1%); this distribution does not coincide with the areas of highest livestock concentration. The data shows where public resources for the agricultural sector as a whole were disbursed, not only for livestock farming.
The view opens at the regional level. The selector then moves, in order, to the provincial and municipal levels. Regions and provinces use choropleths, where a darker gold shade corresponds to a higher total amount; municipalities use proportional bubbles at municipal centroids. The five classes are calculated from the national distribution for each level and remain fixed when geographic filters are applied.
Provincial and regional values sum the published municipalities and reconcile with the municipal-view total. Because AGEA applies a confidentiality threshold, municipalities with fewer than 5 beneficiaries are excluded from all three representations. The choropleths show absolute amounts, not euros per hectare, holding or resident, and are therefore also affected by territorial size and agricultural structure.
The figure is aggregated across all agricultural sectors: it does not allow the share of that support going to livestock to be isolated from crops. It should be read as an indicator of the CAP's overall weight in the local agricultural fabric, to be read alongside, not in place of, the CAP & NH₃ Emissions view.
Estimating the Italian-financed share
An estimate of the share of CAP funds disbursed in Italy attributable to Italian financing, and the share coming from the common European budget.
The total of 2025 CAP payments recorded in this view, €7.70 billion, breaks down into three sources: €3.90 billion from the EAGF, €2.14 billion from the European share of the EAFRD, €1.66 billion from national and regional co-financing paired with rural development measures. Dividing the entire amount by the number of taxpayers or residents shows the weight of CAP funds distributed across Italian territory, not their cost borne by Italy: the EAGF and the European component of the EAFRD, €6.04 billion in all, are funded from the Union's common budget, to which all member states contribute.
Italy does contribute to that budget: in 2024 its share stood at around 12.66% of the total. Applying this percentage as a conventional attribution criterion to the European component, and adding it in full to national co-financing — which is Italian public spending in every respect — the share of CAP payments attributable to Italian financing is estimated at about €2.42 billion, 31.5% of the total distributed in Italy.
Relative to the 42,837,963 taxpayers recorded in personal income tax statistics for the 2024 tax year, the average figure is about €56.60; relative to the 58,942,828 residents in Italy as of 31 December 2025, about €41.14. For comparison, improperly attributing the entire amount of CAP payments to Italian financing alone would produce figures nearly three times as high: €179.75 per taxpayer, €130.64 per resident.
These figures are not an individual tax levy nor an official Treasury quantification, but an estimated average share attributable to Italian financing. The EU budget is funded from several own resources — customs duties, VAT, gross national income — that cannot be attributed linearly to the taxpayers of a single state; there is no dedicated CAP tax; and some of the individuals recorded in income tax statistics pay no positive net tax. Nor does the calculation measure Italy's overall net balance with the EU, or how the burden is distributed among individuals, businesses and consumers.