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May 17, 2023 · The birth rate in Italy has been declining steadily since the economic crisis in 2008, for reasons demographers agree is rooted in economic insecurity. The average monthly income across Italy is ...
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Jun 8, 2021 · At just over 400,000 last year, Italy's births were hugely outnumbered by deaths, leading the population to drop by 384,000: equivalent to the city of Florence being wiped off the map. The couple ...
Jan 17, 2020 · Italy’s fertility rate has collapsed to a level of 1.32 children per woman, significantly below the 2.1 defined as the level a country needs to maintain its population. This is down from an ...
May 13, 2023 · Currently, Italy stands at 1.25 children per woman – followed by Malta with 1.13 and Spain, with 1.19. In 2022, births fell to a new all-time low – below 400,000. The country also recorded ...
Apr 28, 2021 · Births fell 10 percent in December 2020, compared to December 2019, rounding off a year in which deaths outnumbered births by 340,000 people. The population fell by 384,000. “It is as if in one year we lost the equivalent of the population of Florence,” said Gian Carlo Blangiardo, who heads Italy’s statistics agency ISTAT.
Nov 16, 2022 · 16 November 2022 · 3-min read. Italy's declining population fuels long-term economic uncertainty. Italy's ageing residents and falling birthrate will decrease the population from 54.2 million people in 2050 to 47.7 million in 2070, according to the Italian National Institute of Statistics. Experts say the future of the country depends on ...
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Unlike many developed countries that have faced low population growth, Italy’s population has actually decreased over the past decade, due to a fertility rate among the lowest in the world — 1.29 total births per woman compared with the EU’s average of 1.54. A factor mitigating this trend is immigration.