The decline in births continues in 2023 in Italy
. This is what emerges from the demographic indicators - year 2023 published today by Istat. According to provisional data, the births resident in Italy are 379 thousand, with a birth rate of 6.4 per thousand (it was 6.7 per thousand in 2022). The decrease in births compared to 2022 is 14 thousand units (-3.6%). Since 2008, the last year in which there was an increase in births in Italy, the decline has been 197 thousand units (-34.2%). The average number of children per woman thus drops from 1.24 in 2022 to 1.20 in 2023, coming very close to the historic minimum of 1.19 children recorded way back in 1995.
In Italy 58.9 million residents, a slight decrease
In Italy the resident population is slightly decreasing. As of 1 January 2024 it amounted to 58 million 990 thousand units (provisional data), down by 7 thousand units compared to the same date of the previous year (-0.1 per thousand inhabitants). Confirming what already emerged in 2022 (-33 thousand units), the slowdown in the population decline continues which, from 2014 to 2021 (-2.8 per thousand on annual average), characterized the country as a whole. Population variation reveals a heterogeneous picture. In the South the variation is negative (-4.1 per thousand). In the North, however, it increased by 2.7 per thousand. That of the Center is stable (+0.1 per thousand).
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