Italy faces ongoing population drop

Italy's resident population fell again last year, Istat said, decreasing by 37,000 to 58 million 934,000 units as of January 1, 2025, CE Report quotes ANSA.

"2024 shows a demographic dynamic in continuity with that of the recent post-pandemic years: a limited decline in the resident population, the confirmation of a strongly negative natural dynamic, a positive migratory dynamic," the stats agency said.

The data were supplied by the president of Istat, Francesco Maria Chelli, in a hearing at the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the economic and social effects deriving from the demographic transition.

"The population decline - he specified - does not involve all areas of the country in a generalized way: while in the North the population increases by 1.6 per thousand, the Center and the South record negative variations equal to -0.6 per thousand and -3.8 per thousand respectively".