In 2022, the Italian population drops to 58.8 million: a negative record for births

Last year the resident population in Italy decreased by 179,000 units, reaching 58.8 million people. In 2019 we were 59.8 million, one million more. For the first time, births fall below 400,000

The Istat report on the demographic dynamics of 2022 confirms the negative trend that began in 2008, the year in which the maximum relative value of births in the last 20 years was recorded. Italy continues to lose population due to the effect of the natural balance: the new born are ever fewer and more and more inferior to the new deaths, with a dynamic that is only partially mitigated by the migratory balance with foreign countries (immigrants are more than emigrants). Last year the resident population in Italy decreased by 179 thousand units, reaching 58.8 million people (-0.3 percent compared to 2021): from 2019, when the population was 59.8 million, Italy has lost a million inhabitants.