The negative sports number among Italian young

To understand why after the pandemic, sports should be funded, let’s remind those who can decide our negative situation.

Nearly 2 million children and teens do not participate in sports or physical activity.
2017-2018 there are about 5 million 30 thousand children aged 3-17 years who practice one or more sports in their free time (59.4%). 52.5% do it continuously and 6.9% occasionally…
Young people who do not practice any sport or physical activity in their free time number one million 925 thousand, equal to 22.7% of the population aged 3-17.
This quota is particularly high among children aged 3-5 years (46.1%).
North-South: With the exception of Sardinia, in most southern regions and islands, more than one boy in four does not participate in sports or physical activity. Conversely, the highest percentages were found in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano (74.5%), Friuli-Venezia Giulia (73.2%), Valle d’Aosta (72.6%) and Liguria (71.6%) (Table 6).
Parental educational qualifications and family economic resources. Children who live in families with the lowest sociocultural status present the highest levels of sedentariness: 32.1% of those who live in families whose parents have at most compulsory schooling compared with 12.9% of those who live in families in which at least one parent has a university degree.
Relationship between children’s and parents’ physical inactivity. Young people whose parents say they do not participate in sports or physical activity have a sedentary lifestyle: 47.9% if both parents are sedentary versus 9.8% if neither parent is sedentary.