ROME (ITALPRESS) – Birth rate declining, mortality sharply declining: six newborns and 11 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants. More immigrants and fewer emigrants than the previous year: the net migratory balance rises from +261 thousand in 2022 to +274 thousand in 2023. More significant demographic decline in the municipalities of the internal areas of Southern Italy and population reduction in four out of five municipalities. Foreign resident population growing: 5 million and 308 thousand individuals on 1 January 2024, +166 thousand on the previous year.
These are the main data that emerge from Istat reports on the demographic indicators of 2023, from which it emerges that on 1 January 2024 the resident population in Italy amounted to 58 million 990 thousand units, down by 7 thousand units compared to the same date 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. In 2023, there will be 379 thousand resident births in Italy, 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%). Registrations from abroad (416 thousand) and cancellations from abroad (142 thousand) determine a positive migration balance with foreign countries of 274 thousand units. In these conditions, which allow the deficit due to natural dynamics to be almost completely compensated with a favorable migratory dynamic, the resident population has the possibility of remaining, at least on a numerical level, in substantial balance.
Trentino-Alto Adige, with an average number of children per woman of 1.42, continues to hold the record for the highest fertility in the country, although it is among the regions with the greatest negative change compared to 2022 (1.51) . Sardinia continues to be the region with the lowest fertility. Stably placed below the level of one child per woman for the fourth consecutive year, in 2023 it stands at 0.91 children (0.95 in 2022). As of 1 January 2024, the resident population had an average age of 46.6 years, up by two decimal points (approximately three months) compared to 1 January 2023.
The number of people over eighty, the so-called elderly, is increasing: with 4 million 554 thousand individuals, almost 50 thousand more than 12 months earlier, this contingent has exceeded that of children under 10 years of age (4 million 441 thousand individuals). This ratio, which is now below parity, was 2.5 to 1 twenty-five years ago and 9 to 1 fifty years ago.
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